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package org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing;

import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

/**
 * Class that models an arbitrary location in a {@link Resource resource}.
 *
 * <p>Typically used to track the location of problematic or erroneous
 * metadata in XML configuration files. For example, a
 * {@link #getSource() source} location might be 'The bean defined on
 * line 76 of beans.properties has an invalid Class'; another source might
 * be the actual DOM Element from a parsed XML {@link org.w3c.dom.Document};
 * or the source object might simply be <code>null</code>.
 *
 * @author Rob Harrop
 * @since 2.0
 */
public class Location {

	private final Resource resource;

	private final Object source;


	/**
	 * Create a new instance of the {@link Location} class.
	 * @param resource the resource with which this location is associated
	 */
	public Location(Resource resource) {
		this(resource, null);
	}

	/**
	 * Create a new instance of the {@link Location} class.
	 * @param resource the resource with which this location is associated
	 * @param source the actual location within the associated resource
	 * (may be <code>null</code>)
	 */
	public Location(Resource resource, Object source) {
		Assert.notNull(resource, "Resource must not be null");
		this.resource = resource;
		this.source = source;
	}


	/**
	 * Get the resource with which this location is associated.
	 */
	public Resource getResource() {
		return this.resource;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the actual location within the associated {@link #getResource() resource}
	 * (may be <code>null</code>).
	 * <p>See the {@link Location class level javadoc for this class} for examples
	 * of what the actual type of the returned object may be.
	 */
	public Object getSource() {
		return this.source;
	}

}