org.eclipse.jface.text/projection/org/eclipse/jface/text/source/projection/IProjectionPosition.java

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package org.eclipse.jface.text.source.projection;

import org.eclipse.jface.text.BadLocationException;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.IDocument;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.IRegion;


/**
 * An <code>IProjectionPosition</code> is a position that is associated with a
 * <code>ProjectionAnnotation</code> and that is able to compute its collapsed
 * regions. That is, if a <code>Position</code> implements this interface,
 * <code>ProjectionViewer</code> will delegate to the
 * {@link #computeProjectionRegions(IDocument) computeProjectionRegions} method
 * when determining the document regions that should be collapsed for a certain
 * <code>ProjectionAnnotation</code>.
 *
 * @since 3.1
 */
public interface IProjectionPosition {

	/**
	 * Returns an array of regions that should be collapsed when the annotation
	 * belonging to this position is collapsed. May return null instead of
	 * an empty array.
	 *
	 * @param document the document that this position is attached to
	 * @return the foldable regions for this position
	 * @throws BadLocationException if accessing the document fails
	 */
	IRegion[] computeProjectionRegions(IDocument document) throws BadLocationException;

	/**
	 * Returns the offset of the caption (the anchor region) of this projection
	 * position. The returned offset is relative to the receivers offset into
	 * the document.
	 *
	 * @param document the document that this position is attached to
	 * @return the caption offset relative to the position's offset
	 * @throws BadLocationException if accessing the document fails
	 */
	int computeCaptionOffset(IDocument document) throws BadLocationException;

}