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 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
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 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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package net.sourceforge.phpdt.core.formatter;

import org.eclipse.text.edits.TextEdit;

/**
 * Specification for a generic source code formatter.
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
public abstract class CodeFormatter {

	/**
	 * Unknown kind
	 */
	public static final int K_UNKNOWN = 0x00;

	/**
	 * Kind used to format an expression
	 */
	public static final int K_EXPRESSION = 0x01;

	/**
	 * Kind used to format a set of statements
	 */
	public static final int K_STATEMENTS = 0x02;

	/**
	 * Kind used to format a set of class body declarations
	 */
	public static final int K_CLASS_BODY_DECLARATIONS = 0x04;

	/**
	 * Kind used to format a compilation unit
	 */
	public static final int K_COMPILATION_UNIT = 0x08;

	/**
	 * Format <code>source</code>, and returns a text edit that correspond to
	 * the difference between the given string and the formatted string. It
	 * returns null if the given string cannot be formatted.
	 * 
	 * If the offset position is matching a whitespace, the result can include
	 * whitespaces. It would be up to the caller to get rid of preceeding
	 * whitespaces.
	 * 
	 * @param kind
	 *            Use to specify the kind of the code snippet to format. It can
	 *            be any of these: K_EXPRESSION, K_STATEMENTS,
	 *            K_CLASS_BODY_DECLARATIONS, K_COMPILATION_UNIT, K_UNKNOWN
	 * @param source
	 *            the source to format
	 * @param offset
	 *            the given offset to start recording the edits (inclusive).
	 * @param length
	 *            the given length to stop recording the edits (exclusive).
	 * @param indentationLevel
	 *            the initial indentation level, used to shift left/right the
	 *            entire source fragment. An initial indentation level of zero
	 *            or below has no effect.
	 * @param lineSeparator
	 *            the line separator to use in formatted source, if set to
	 *            <code>null</code>, then the platform default one will be
	 *            used.
	 * @return the text edit
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException
	 *             if offset is lower than 0, length is lower than 0 or length
	 *             is greater than source length.
	 */
	public abstract TextEdit format(int kind, String source, int offset,
			int length, int indentationLevel, String lineSeparator);
}