// ****************************************************************

// Copyright 2007, Charlie Poole

// This is free software licensed under the NUnit license. You may

// obtain a copy of the license at http://nunit.org

// ****************************************************************

using System;



namespace NUnit.Core.Extensibility

{

	/// <summary>

	/// The IExtensionHost interface is implemented by each

	/// of NUnit's Extension hosts. Currently, there is

	/// only one host, which resides in the test domain.

	/// </summary>

	public interface IExtensionHost

	{

        /// <summary>

        /// Get a list of the ExtensionPoints provided by this host.

        /// </summary>

        IExtensionPoint[] ExtensionPoints

        {

            get;

        }



        /// <summary>

        /// Get an interface to the framework registry

        /// </summary>

        [Obsolete("Use the FrameworkRegistry extension point instead")]

        IFrameworkRegistry FrameworkRegistry

        {

            get;

        }



        /// <summary>

		/// Return an extension point by name, if present

		/// </summary>

		/// <param name="name">The name of the extension point</param>

		/// <returns>The extension point, if found, otherwise null</returns>

		IExtensionPoint GetExtensionPoint( string name );



        /// <summary>

        /// Gets the ExtensionTypes supported by this host

        /// </summary>

        /// <returns>An enum indicating the ExtensionTypes supported</returns>

        ExtensionType ExtensionTypes { get; }

	}

}