Eclipse Platform
2.0

org.eclipse.jface.text
Class Position

java.lang.Object
  |
  +--org.eclipse.jface.text.Position
Direct Known Subclasses:
TypedPosition

public class Position
extends Object

Positions describe text ranges of a document and are adapted to changes applied to that document. The text range is specified by an offset and a length. Positions can be marked as deleted. Deleted positions are considered to no longer represent a valid text range in the managing document.

Positions attached to documents are ususally updated by position updaters. Because position updaters are freely defineable and because of the frequence in which they are used, the fields of a position are made publicly accessible. Clients other than position updaters are not allowed to access these public fields.

See Also:
IDocument

Field Summary
 boolean isDeleted
          Indicates whether the position has been deleted
 int length
          The length of the position
 int offset
          The offset of the position
 
Constructor Summary
Position(int offset)
          Creates a new position with the given offset and length 0.
Position(int offset, int length)
          Creates a new position with the given offset and length.
 
Method Summary
 void delete()
          Marks this position as deleted.
 boolean equals(Object other)
           
 int getLength()
          Returns the length of this position.
 int getOffset()
          Returns the offset of this position.
 int hashCode()
           
 boolean includes(int offset)
          Checks whether the given offset is inside of this position's text range.
 boolean isDeleted()
          Returns whether this position has been deleted or not.
 boolean overlapsWith(int offset, int length)
          Checks whether the intersection of the given text range and the text range represented by this position is empty or not.
 void setLength(int length)
          Changes the length of this position to the given length.
 void setOffset(int offset)
          Changes the offset of this position to the given offset.
 void undelete()
          Marks this position as not deleted.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

offset

public int offset
The offset of the position


length

public int length
The length of the position


isDeleted

public boolean isDeleted
Indicates whether the position has been deleted

Constructor Detail

Position

public Position(int offset)
Creates a new position with the given offset and length 0.

Parameters:
offset - the position offset, must be >= 0

Position

public Position(int offset,
                int length)
Creates a new position with the given offset and length.

Parameters:
offset - the position offset, must be >= 0
length - the position length, must be >= 0
Method Detail

hashCode

public int hashCode()
Overrides:
hashCode in class Object

delete

public void delete()
Marks this position as deleted.


undelete

public void undelete()
Marks this position as not deleted.

Since:
2.0

equals

public boolean equals(Object other)
Overrides:
equals in class Object

getLength

public int getLength()
Returns the length of this position.

Returns:
the length of this position

getOffset

public int getOffset()
Returns the offset of this position.

Returns:
the length of this position

includes

public boolean includes(int offset)
Checks whether the given offset is inside of this position's text range.

Parameters:
offset - the offset to check
Returns:
true if offset is inside of this position

overlapsWith

public boolean overlapsWith(int offset,
                            int length)
Checks whether the intersection of the given text range and the text range represented by this position is empty or not.

Parameters:
offset - the offset of the range to check
length - the length of the range to check
Returns:
true if intersection is not empty

isDeleted

public boolean isDeleted()
Returns whether this position has been deleted or not.

Returns:
true if position has been deleted

setLength

public void setLength(int length)
Changes the length of this position to the given length.

Parameters:
length - the new length of this position

setOffset

public void setOffset(int offset)
Changes the offset of this position to the given offset.

Parameters:
offset - the new offset of this position

Eclipse Platform
2.0

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