001/*
002 *  Copyright 2012 Anyware Services
003 *
004 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
009 *
010 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 *  limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.ametys.runtime.plugin.component;
017
018/**
019 * Components acception this marker interface indicate that they want
020 * to have a reference to their parent.
021 * This is for example used for selectors.
022 * Note: For the current implementation to work, the parent aware 
023 * component and the parent have to be both ThreadSafe!
024 */
025public interface ParentAware
026{
027    /**
028     * Set the parent component
029     * @param parentComponent the parent component
030     */
031    void setParent(Object parentComponent);
032}