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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2011 IBM Corporation 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:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.jface.text.rules;


import org.eclipse.jface.text.IDocument;


/**
 * A partition token scanner returns tokens that represent partitions. For that reason,
 * a partition token scanner is vulnerable in respect to the document offset it starts
 * scanning. In a simple case, a partition token scanner must always start at a partition
 * boundary. A partition token scanner can also start in the middle of a partition,
 * if it knows the type of the partition.
 *
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface IPartitionTokenScanner  extends ITokenScanner {

	/**
	 * Configures the scanner by providing access to the document range that should be scanned. The
	 * range may not only contain complete partitions but starts at the beginning of a line in the
	 * middle of a partition of the given content type. This requires that a partition delimiter can
	 * not contain a line delimiter.
	 *
	 * @param document the document to scan
	 * @param offset the offset of the document range to scan
	 * @param length the length of the document range to scan
	 * @param contentType the content type at the given offset
	 * @param partitionOffset the offset at which the partition of the given offset starts
	 */
	void setPartialRange(IDocument document, int offset, int length, String contentType, int partitionOffset);
}

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