com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api
Interface TextBlock

public interface TextBlock

A block of text from an inputfile that does not necessarily have any grammatical structure.

Author:

lkuehne

Method Summary

int	getEndColNo() The column in the inputfile where the text block ends.
int	getEndLineNo() The last line of the text block in the inputfile.
int	getStartColNo() The column in the inputfile where the text block starts.
int	getStartLineNo() The line in the inputfile where the text block starts.
String[]	getText() The text content of the text block.
boolean	intersects(int aStartLineNo, int aStartColNo, int aEndLineNo, int aEndColNo) Checks if this comment intersects with a specified part of the file.

Method Detail

getText

String[] getText()

The text content of the text block. Each line is represented by one array entry. The linebreak characters are not part of the text content.

Returns:

the text content of the text block.

getStartLineNo

int getStartLineNo()

The line in the inputfile where the text block starts. Counting starts from 1.

Returns:

first line of the text block

getEndLineNo

int getEndLineNo()

The last line of the text block in the inputfile. Counting starts from 1.

Returns:

last line of the text block

getStartColNo

int getStartColNo()

The column in the inputfile where the text block starts. Counting starts from 0.

Returns:

first line of the text block

getEndColNo

int getEndColNo()

The column in the inputfile where the text block ends. Counting starts from 0.

Returns:

last line of the text block

intersects

boolean intersects(int aStartLineNo,
                   int aStartColNo,
                   int aEndLineNo,
                   int aEndColNo)

Checks if this comment intersects with a specified part of the file.

Parameters:

aStartLineNo - the starting line number in the file

aStartColNo - the starting column number in the file

aEndLineNo - the ending line number in the file

aEndColNo - the ending column number in the file

Returns:

true if the positions intersects with this comment.