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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010-2015, Andras Szabolcs Nagy and Daniel Varro
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html.
+ * 
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.viatra.dse.statecoding;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Notifier;
+import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
+import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of this interface is responsible to provide {@link EObject}s of a given {@link EClass} for
+ * {@link TheStateCoder}
+ * 
+ * @author Andras Szabolcs Nagy
+ *
+ */
+public interface IObjectsProvider {
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the {@link IObjectsProvider} on a given model and {@link StatecodingDependencyGraph}.
+     * 
+     * @param notifier
+     *            The root of the model.
+     * @param statecodingDependencyGraph
+     *            The state coding dependency graph.
+     */
+    void init(Notifier notifier, StatecodingDependencyGraph statecodingDependencyGraph);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the instances of an {@link EClass} in a model.
+     * 
+     * @param eClass
+     *            The class of the objects.
+     * @return The collection of the instances.
+     */
+    Collection<EObject> getEObjects(EClass eClass);
+
+}