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#ifndef ILANGUAGESUPPORT_H
#define ILANGUAGESUPPORT_H

#include <kurl.h>

#include "../editor/simplerange.h"
#include "../languageexport.h"

namespace KDevelop {

class ParseJob;
class ILanguage;
class TopDUContext;
class DocumentRange;
class SimpleCursor;
class SimpleRange;
class ICodeHighlighting;
class DocumentChangeTracker;

class KDEVPLATFORMLANGUAGE_EXPORT ILanguageSupport {
public:
    virtual ~ILanguageSupport() {}

    /** @return the name of the language.*/
    virtual QString name() const = 0;
    /** @return the parse job that is used by background parser to parse given @p url.*/
    virtual ParseJob *createParseJob(const KUrl &url) = 0;
    /** @return the language for this support.*/
    virtual ILanguage *language();
    /**
      * Only important for languages that can parse multiple different versions of a file, like C++ due to the preprocessor.
     * The default-implementation for other languages is "return DUChain::chainForDocument(url);"
     * 
     * @param proxyContext      Whether the returned context should be a proxy-contexts. In C++, a proxy-contexts has no direct content.
     *                          It mainly just imports an actual content-context, and it holds all the imports. It can also represent
     *                          multiple different versions of the same content in the eyes of the preprocessor. Also, a proxy-context may contain the problem-
     *                          descriptions of preprocessor problems.
     *                          The proxy-context should be preferred whenever the problem-list is required, or for deciding whether a document needs to be updated
     *                          (only the proxy-context knows about all the dependencies, since it contains most of the imports)
     *
     *  @warning The DUChain must be locked before calling this, @see KDevelop::DUChainReadLocker
     * 
     *  @return the standard context used by this language for the given @param url.
      * */
    virtual TopDUContext *standardContext(const KUrl& url, bool proxyContext = false);

    /**
      * Should return a code-highlighting instance for this language, or zero.
      */
    virtual ICodeHighlighting* codeHighlighting() const;

    /**
     * Should return a document change-tracker for this language that tracks the changes in the given document 
     * */
    virtual DocumentChangeTracker* createChangeTrackerForDocument(KTextEditor::Document* document) const;
    
    /**
     * The following functions are used to allow navigation-features, tooltips, etc. for non-duchain language objects.
     * In C++, they are used to allow highlighting and navigation of macro-uses.
     * */

    /**Should return the local range within the given url that belongs to the
      *special language-object that contains @param position, or (KUrl(), SimpleRange:invalid()) */
    virtual SimpleRange specialLanguageObjectRange(const KUrl& url, const SimpleCursor& position);

    /**Should return the source-range and source-document that the
      *special language-object that contains @param position refers to, or SimpleRange:invalid(). */
    virtual QPair<KUrl, SimpleCursor> specialLanguageObjectJumpCursor(const KUrl& url, const SimpleCursor& position);
    
    /**Should return a navigation-widget for the
      *special language-object that contains @param position refers, or 0. */
    virtual QWidget* specialLanguageObjectNavigationWidget(const KUrl& url, const SimpleCursor& position);
    
    /**Should return a tiny piece of code which makes it possible for KDevelop to derive the indentation
      *settings from an automatic source formatter. Example for C++: "class C{\n class D {\n void c() {\n int m;\n }\n }\n};\n"
      *The sample must be completely unindented (no line must start with leading whitespace),
      *and it must contain at least 4 indentation levels!
      *The default implementation returns an empty string.*/
    virtual QString indentationSample() const;
};

}

Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE( KDevelop::ILanguageSupport, "org.kdevelop.ILanguageSupport")

#endif
