1   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2   // checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
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18  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19  
20  package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
21  
22  /**
23   * A block of text from an input file that does not necessarily
24   * have any grammatical structure.
25   *
26   */
27  public interface TextBlock {
28  
29      /**
30       * The text content of the text block.
31       * Each line is represented by one array entry.
32       * The linebreak characters are not part of the text content.
33       *
34       * @return the text content of the text block.
35       */
36      String[] getText();
37  
38      /**
39       * The line in the input file where the text block starts.
40       * Counting starts from 1.
41       * @return first line of the text block
42       */
43      int getStartLineNo();
44  
45      /**
46       * The last line of the text block in the input file.
47       * Counting starts from 1.
48       * @return last line of the text block
49       */
50      int getEndLineNo();
51  
52      /**
53       * The column in the input file where the text block starts.
54       * Counting starts from 0.
55       * @return first line of the text block
56       */
57      int getStartColNo();
58  
59      /**
60       * The column in the input file where the text block ends.
61       * Counting starts from 0.
62       * @return last line of the text block
63       */
64      int getEndColNo();
65  
66      /**
67       * Checks if this comment intersects with a specified
68       * part of the file.
69       *
70       * @param startLineNo the starting line number in the file
71       * @param startColNo the starting column number in the file
72       * @param endLineNo the ending line number in the file
73       * @param endColNo the ending column number in the file
74       * @return true if the positions intersects with this comment.
75       */
76      boolean intersects(int startLineNo, int startColNo,
77                         int endLineNo, int endColNo);
78  
79  }