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package org.eclipse.jface.text.rules;


/**
 * A token to be returned by a rule.
 * Originally since unknown version, but moved to org.eclipse.text in 3.14
 *
 * @since 3.14
 */
public interface IToken {

	/**
	 * Return whether this token is undefined.
	 *
	 * @return trueif this token is undefined
	 */
	boolean isUndefined();

	/**
	 * Return whether this token represents a whitespace.
	 *
	 * @return trueif this token represents a whitespace
	 */
	boolean isWhitespace();

	/**
	 * Return whether this token represents End Of File.
	 *
	 * @return trueif this token represents EOF
	 */
	boolean isEOF();

	/**
	 * Return whether this token is neither undefined, nor whitespace, nor EOF.
	 *
	 * @return trueif this token is not undefined, not a whitespace, and not EOF
	 */
	boolean isOther();

	/**
	 * Return a data attached to this token. The semantics of this data kept undefined by this interface.
	 *
	 * @return the data attached to this token.
	 */
	Object getData();
}