/*
!=======================================================================
!
!  PROGRAM  PHASE-Viewer  (PHASE-Viewer 2014.01 ver.3.3.0)
!
!  Created on 2006/10/16, 17:06
!  AUTHOR(S): KOGA, Junichiro
!  File : Input.java
!  
!  Contact address :  Phase System Consortium
!                     E-mail: phase_system@nims.go.jp URL https://azuma.nims.go.jp
!
!
!   Since 2002, this program set had been intensively developed as a part of the following 
!  national projects supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
!  Technology (MEXT) of Japan; "Frontier Simulation Software for Industrial Science
!  (FSIS)" from 2002 to 2005, "Revolutionary Simulation Software (RSS21)" from 2006 to
!  2008. "Research and Development of Innovative Simulation Software (RISS)" from 2008
!  to 2013. These projects is lead by the Center for Research on Innovative Simulation 
!  Software (CISS), the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo.
!   Since 2013, this program set has been further developed centering on PHASE System
!  Consortium. 
!   The activity of development of this program set has been supervised by Takahisa Ohno.
!
!=======================================================================
 */

package ciss.phase_viewer.inputinterface;

/**
 * "入力ファイル"を扱うクラスが実装するといいかもしれないInterface
 * 
 * @author
 */
public interface Input {
    /**
     * この入力オブジェクトの元となっているファイルのファイル名をフルパスで返す
     * 
     * @return ファイル名
     */
    public String getFileName();

    /**
     * この入力オブジェクトは, どのようなプログラムの入力なのかが分かるような文字列を返す.
     * 
     * @return いわば入力種
     */
    public String getType();

    /**
     * この入力に関連付けられているファイルへ「保存」する.
     */
    public void save();

}
