src/jdk.javadoc/share/classes/com/sun/javadoc/Tag.java
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    25 
       
    26 package com.sun.javadoc;
       
    27 
       
    28 import java.text.BreakIterator;
       
    29 import java.util.Locale;
       
    30 
       
    31 /**
       
    32  * Represents a simple documentation tag, such as @since, @author, @version.
       
    33  * Given a tag (e.g. "@since 1.2"), holds tag name (e.g. "@since")
       
    34  * and tag text (e.g. "1.2").  Tags with structure or which require
       
    35  * special processing are handled by subclasses such as ParamTag
       
    36  * (for @param), SeeTag (for @see and {@link}), and ThrowsTag
       
    37  * (for @throws).
       
    38  *
       
    39  * @author Robert Field
       
    40  * @author Atul M Dambalkar
       
    41  * @see SeeTag
       
    42  * @see ParamTag
       
    43  * @see ThrowsTag
       
    44  * @see SerialFieldTag
       
    45  * @see Doc#tags()
       
    46  *
       
    47  * @deprecated
       
    48  *   The declarations in this package have been superseded by those
       
    49  *   in the package {@code jdk.javadoc.doclet}.
       
    50  *   For more information, see the <i>Migration Guide</i> in the documentation for that package.
       
    51  */
       
    52 @Deprecated(since="9", forRemoval=true)
       
    53 @SuppressWarnings("removal")
       
    54 public interface Tag {
       
    55 
       
    56     /**
       
    57      * Return the name of this tag.  The name is the string
       
    58      * starting with "@" that is used in a doc comment, such as
       
    59      * {@code @return}.  For inline tags, such as
       
    60      * {@code {@link}}, the curly brackets
       
    61      * are not part of the name, so in this example the name
       
    62      * would be simply {@code @link}.
       
    63      *
       
    64      * @return the name of this tag
       
    65      */
       
    66     String name();
       
    67 
       
    68     /**
       
    69      * Return the containing {@link Doc} of this Tag element.
       
    70      *
       
    71      * @return the containing {@link Doc} of this Tag element
       
    72      */
       
    73     Doc holder();
       
    74 
       
    75     /**
       
    76      * Return the kind of this tag.
       
    77      * For most tags,
       
    78      * {@code kind() == name()};
       
    79      * the following table lists those cases where there is more
       
    80      * than one tag of a given kind:
       
    81      *
       
    82      * <table class="striped">
       
    83      * <caption>Related Tags</caption>
       
    84      * <thead>
       
    85      * <tr><th scope="col">{@code name()  }  <th scope="col">{@code kind()      }
       
    86      * </thead>
       
    87      * <tbody style="text-align:left">
       
    88      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @exception  }  <td>{@code @throws }
       
    89      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @link       }  <td>{@code @see    }
       
    90      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @linkplain  }  <td>{@code @see    }
       
    91      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @see        }  <td>{@code @see    }
       
    92      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @serial     }  <td>{@code @serial }
       
    93      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @serialData }  <td>{@code @serial }
       
    94      * <tr><th scope="row">{@code @throws     }  <td>{@code @throws }
       
    95      * </tbody>
       
    96      * </table>
       
    97      *
       
    98      * @return the kind of this tag.
       
    99      */
       
   100     String kind();
       
   101 
       
   102     /**
       
   103      * Return the text of this tag, that is, the portion beyond tag name.
       
   104      *
       
   105      * @return the text of this tag
       
   106      */
       
   107     String text();
       
   108 
       
   109     /**
       
   110      * Convert this object to a string.
       
   111      */
       
   112     String toString();
       
   113 
       
   114     /**
       
   115      * For a documentation comment with embedded {@code {@link}}
       
   116      * tags, return an array of {@code Tag} objects.  The entire
       
   117      * doc comment is broken down into strings separated by
       
   118      * {@code {@link}} tags, where each successive element
       
   119      * of the array represents either a string or
       
   120      * {@code {@link}} tag, in order, from start to end.
       
   121      * Each string is represented by a {@code Tag} object of
       
   122      * name "Text", where {@link #text()} returns the string.  Each
       
   123      * {@code {@link}} tag is represented by a
       
   124      * {@link SeeTag} of name "@link" and kind "@see".
       
   125      * For example, given the following comment
       
   126      * tag:
       
   127      * <p>
       
   128      *  {@code This is a {@link Doc commentlabel} example.}
       
   129      * <p>
       
   130      * return an array of Tag objects:
       
   131      * <ul>
       
   132      *    <li> tags[0] is a {@link Tag} with name "Text" and text consisting
       
   133      *         of "This is a "
       
   134      *    <li> tags[1] is a {@link SeeTag} with name "@link", referenced
       
   135      *         class {@code Doc} and label "commentlabel"
       
   136      *    <li> tags[2] is a {@link Tag} with name "Text" and text consisting
       
   137      *         of " example."
       
   138      * </ul>
       
   139      *
       
   140      * @return Tag[] array of tags
       
   141      * @see ParamTag
       
   142      * @see ThrowsTag
       
   143      */
       
   144     Tag[] inlineTags();
       
   145 
       
   146     /**
       
   147      * Return the first sentence of the comment as an array of tags.
       
   148      * Includes inline tags
       
   149      * (i.e. {&#64;link <i>reference</i>} tags)  but not
       
   150      * block tags.
       
   151      * Each section of plain text is represented as a {@link Tag}
       
   152      * of kind "Text".
       
   153      * Inline tags are represented as a {@link SeeTag} of kind "@link".
       
   154      * If the locale is English language, the first sentence is
       
   155      * determined by the rules described in the Java Language
       
   156      * Specification (first version): &quot;This sentence ends
       
   157      * at the first period that is followed by a blank, tab, or
       
   158      * line terminator or at the first tagline.&quot;, in
       
   159      * addition a line will be terminated by paragraph and
       
   160      * section terminating HTML tags: &lt;p&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;
       
   161      * &lt;h2&gt;  &lt;h3&gt; &lt;h4&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;  &lt;h6&gt;
       
   162      * &lt;hr&gt;  &lt;pre&gt;  or &lt;/pre&gt;.
       
   163      * If the locale is not English, the sentence end will be
       
   164      * determined by
       
   165      * {@link BreakIterator#getSentenceInstance(Locale)}.
       
   166      *
       
   167      * @return an array of {@link Tag} objects representing the
       
   168      *         first sentence of the comment
       
   169      */
       
   170     Tag[] firstSentenceTags();
       
   171 
       
   172     /**
       
   173      * Return the source position of this tag.
       
   174      * @return the source position of this tag.
       
   175      */
       
   176     public SourcePosition position();
       
   177 }