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package org.netbeans.modules.csl.api;

import java.util.Map;
import org.netbeans.api.annotations.common.NonNull;
import org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.Parser;
import org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.ParserResultTask;


/**
 * A CancellableTask responsible for computing the set of highlights matching
 * occurrences of the same program element as the one under the caret.
 *
 * @todo This should not be a stateful interface; there should be a single
 *   compute-occurrences-for-position method.  See
 *   http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=144160
 *   for the kinds of bugs that can result from this.
 * 
 * @author Tor Norbye
 */
public abstract class OccurrencesFinder extends ParserResultTask {
    /**
     * Set the caret position for which the current program element should
     * be computed. This method will be called before {@link #run} is called
     * to produce the set of highlights.
     */
    public abstract void setCaretPosition(int position);
    
    /**
     * Return a set of occurrence highlights computed by the last call to
     * {@link #run}.
     */
    public abstract @NonNull Map getOccurrences();
}