1 /******************************************************************************* 2 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others. 3 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 4 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 5 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 6 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 7 * 8 * Contributors: 9 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation 10 *******************************************************************************/ 11 package org.eclipse.jface.text; 12 13 14 15 /** 16 * Describes a region of an indexed text store such as a document or a string. 17 * The region consists of offset, length, and type. The region type is defined 18 * as a string. 19 * <p> 20 * A typed region can, e.g., be used to described document partitions.</p> 21 * <p> 22 * Clients may implement this interface or use the standard implementation 23 * {@link org.eclipse.jface.text.TypedRegion}.</p> 24 */ 25 public interface ITypedRegion extends IRegion { 26 27 /** 28 * Returns the content type of the region. 29 * 30 * @return the content type of the region 31 */ 32 String getType(); 33 } 34