public interface AutoImporter
extends SciJavaPlugin

Base interface for auto-importer plugins.

A convenient, if sloppy, script editor feature inherited from the Fiji days (where the script editor was developed originally) is the ability to use all ImageJ 1.x classes without having to import them explicitly.

Nowadays, we support many more components than just the ImageJ 1.x classes, and that feature is more a hindrance than a boon, but for backwards-compatibility, we still support it. However, the script editor must not depend on ImageJ 1.x any longer, hence we add support for AutoImporter plugins that report which classes to auto-import.