/**
* <copyright>
*
* Copyright (c) 2009,2010 Eclipse Modeling Project and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* E.D.Willink - initial API and implementation
*
* </copyright>
*
* $Id: IParseResult.java,v 1.1 2010/03/11 14:51:20 ewillink Exp $
*/
package org.eclipse.ocl.examples.editor.ui.imp;
import org.eclipse.imp.parser.IParseController;
import org.eclipse.imp.parser.ISourcePositionLocator;
/**
* An IParseResult encapsulates the result of a parse and provides methods
* to access the result and the source of the result.
*/
public interface IParseResult
{
/**
* Return the AST created by the parse controller.
*
* @return the AST
*/
public Object getAST();
/**
* Return the parse controller that created this result.
*
* @return the parse controller.
*/
public IParseController getParseController();
/**
* Return a locator for source positions.
*
* @return the source position locator
*/
public ISourcePositionLocator getSourcePositionLocator();
/**
* Returns the source text for the given character offset range
*
* @param start first character returned
* @param length number of characters returned
*
* @return the character range
*/
public String getTextRange(int start, int length);
}