/*
!=======================================================================
!
!  PROGRAM  PHASE-Viewer  (PHASE-Viewer 2014.01 ver.3.3.0)
!
!  Created on 2006/10/18, 13:32
!  AUTHOR(S): KOGA, Junichiro
!  File : InputWizardRoot.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.input;

import org.jdom.Document;

/**
 * InputWizardの「ルート」が実装するとよいインターフェース
 * 
 * @author
 */
public interface InputWizardRoot extends InputWizard {
    /**
     * Wizardのspecificationが書いてあるDocumentを取得
     * 
     * @return Wizardのspecification
     */
    public Document getSpecDocument();

    /**
     * Wizardは, 基本的にはDocumentに書いてあるだけ実行されるけど, 状況によっては全部インスタンス化したくない場合がある.
     * 具体的にはscratchからはじめる場合やtemplateを指定する場合. そんなときは何番目までインスタンス化するかをこのメソッドで返す.
     * 
     * @return インスタンス化するWizardの数
     */
    public int getNumWizards();
}
