WordsScanner.java

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package com.intellij.lang.cacheBuilder;

import com.intellij.util.Processor;

/**
 * Implemented by a custom language plugin to define how texts in the language are
 * broken into words. Used to build a word index which is later used for Find Usages.
 *
 * @author max
 * @see com.intellij.lang.findUsages.FindUsagesProvider#getWordsScanner()
 * @see SimpleWordsScanner
 * @see DefaultWordsScanner
 */
public interface WordsScanner {
  /**
   * Processes the specified text fragment and passes every word in the text to the
   * specified processor.
   *
   * @param fileText  the text to break into words.
   * @param processor the processor which accepts the words in the text.
   */
  void processWords(CharSequence fileText, Processor<WordOccurrence> processor);
}