org.eclipse.jface.text
Interface IDocumentExtension

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDocument

public interface IDocumentExtension

Extension interface for IDocument.

It introduces the notion of sequentially rewriting a document. This is to tell a document that a sequence of non-overlapping replace operation is about to be performed.

Is also introduces the concept of post notification replaces. This is, a document listener who is informed about a document change can cause a derived document change. As the listener is not allowed to directly modify the document, it can register a replace operation that is performed directly after all document listeners have been notified.

Since:

2.0

Nested Class Summary

static interface

IDocumentExtension.IReplace Interface for a post notification replace operation.

Method Summary

void	registerPostNotificationReplace(IDocumentListener owner, IDocumentExtension.IReplace replace) Callback for document listeners to be used inside documentChanged to register a post notification replace operation on the document notifying them.
void	resumePostNotificationProcessing() Resumes the processing of post notification replace operations.
void	startSequentialRewrite(boolean normalize) Tells the document that it is about to be sequentially rewritten.
void	stopPostNotificationProcessing() Stops the processing of registered post notification replace operations until resumePostNotificationProcessing is called.
void	stopSequentialRewrite() Tells the document that the sequential rewrite has been finished.

Method Detail

registerPostNotificationReplace

public void registerPostNotificationReplace(IDocumentListener owner,
                                            IDocumentExtension.IReplace replace)
                                     throws UnsupportedOperationException

Callback for document listeners to be used inside documentChanged to register a post notification replace operation on the document notifying them.

Parameters:

owner - the owner of the replace operation

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException - if registerPostNotificationReplace is not supported by this document

stopPostNotificationProcessing

public void stopPostNotificationProcessing()

Stops the processing of registered post notification replace operations until resumePostNotificationProcessing is called.

resumePostNotificationProcessing

public void resumePostNotificationProcessing()

Resumes the processing of post notification replace operations. If the queue of registered IDocumentExtension.IReplace objects is not empty, they are immediately processed if the document is not inside a replace operation. If the document is inside a replace operation, they are processed directly after the replace operation has finished.

startSequentialRewrite

public void startSequentialRewrite(boolean normalize)

Tells the document that it is about to be sequentially rewritten. That is a sequence of non-overlapping replace operations will be performed on it. The normalize flag indicates whether the rewrite is preformed from the start of the document to its end or from an arbitrary start offset.

Parameters:

normalize - true if performed from the start to the end of the document

stopSequentialRewrite

public void stopSequentialRewrite()

Tells the document that the sequential rewrite has been finished.