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package org.eclipse.jgit.lib;

A progress reporting interface.
/**
 * A progress reporting interface.
 */
public interface ProgressMonitor {
	
Constant indicating the total work units cannot be predicted. /** Constant indicating the total work units cannot be predicted. */
	int UNKNOWN = 0;

	
Advise the monitor of the total number of subtasks.

This should be invoked at most once per progress monitor interface.
Params:
totalTasks – 
           the total number of tasks the caller will need to complete
           their processing./**
	 * Advise the monitor of the total number of subtasks.
	 * <p>
	 * This should be invoked at most once per progress monitor interface.
	 *
	 * @param totalTasks
	 *            the total number of tasks the caller will need to complete
	 *            their processing.
	 */
	void start(int totalTasks);

	
Begin processing a single task.
Params:
title – 
           title to describe the task. Callers should publish these as
           stable string constants that implementations could match
           against for translation support.
totalWork –  total number of work units the application will perform; UNKNOWN if it cannot be predicted in advance./**
	 * Begin processing a single task.
	 *
	 * @param title
	 *            title to describe the task. Callers should publish these as
	 *            stable string constants that implementations could match
	 *            against for translation support.
	 * @param totalWork
	 *            total number of work units the application will perform;
	 *            {@link #UNKNOWN} if it cannot be predicted in advance.
	 */
	void beginTask(String title, int totalWork);

	
Denote that some work units have been completed.

This is an incremental update; if invoked once per work unit the correct
value for our argument is 1, to indicate a single unit of
work has been finished by the caller.
Params:
completed – 
           the number of work units completed since the last call./**
	 * Denote that some work units have been completed.
	 * <p>
	 * This is an incremental update; if invoked once per work unit the correct
	 * value for our argument is <code>1</code>, to indicate a single unit of
	 * work has been finished by the caller.
	 *
	 * @param completed
	 *            the number of work units completed since the last call.
	 */
	void update(int completed);

	
Finish the current task, so the next can begin.
/**
	 * Finish the current task, so the next can begin.
	 */
	void endTask();

	
Check for user task cancellation.
Returns:
true if the user asked the process to stop working./**
	 * Check for user task cancellation.
	 *
	 * @return true if the user asked the process to stop working.
	 */
	boolean isCancelled();
}