/* * Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Christopher Lenz and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Christopher Lenz - initial API * * $Id: ISourceReference.java,v 1.1 2004-09-02 18:05:21 jsurfer Exp $ */ package net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.core.model; import org.eclipse.jface.text.IRegion; /** * Common protocol for model elements that have associated source code. */ public interface ISourceReference { /** * Returns the source code associated with this model element. * *
* This method extracts the substring from the source buffer containing * this source element. This corresponds to the source regione that would * be returned by {@link ISourceReference#getSourceRegion()}. *
* * @return The source code, ornull
if this element has no
* associated source code
*/
String getSource();
/**
* Returns the source range associated with this element.
*
* @return The source region, or null
if this element has no
* associated source code
*/
IRegion getSourceRegion();
}