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Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard

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// checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
// Copyright (C) 2001-2018 the original author or authors.
//
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package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;

/**
 * DetailNode is used to construct tree during parsing Javadoc comments.
 * Contains array of children, parent node and other useful fields.
 *
 * @see com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.javadoc.JavadocNodeImpl
 * @see com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.javadoc.AbstractJavadocCheck
 */
public interface DetailNode {

    /**
     * Node type.
     * @return node type.
     * @see JavadocTokenTypes
     */
    int getType();

    /**
     * Node text.
     * @return node text
     */
    String getText();

    /**
     * Node line number.
     * @return node line number
     */
    int getLineNumber();

    /**
     * Node column number.
     * @return node column number.
     */
    int getColumnNumber();

    /**
     * Array of children.
     * @return array of children
     */
    DetailNode[] getChildren();

    /**
     * Parent node.
     * @return parent node.
     */
    DetailNode getParent();

    /**
     * Node index among parent's children.
     * @return index
     */
    int getIndex();

}