platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/psi/tree/ILazyParseableElementType.java

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package com.intellij.psi.tree;

import com.intellij.lang.*;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A token type which represents a fragment of text (possibly in a different language)
 * which is not parsed during the current lexer or parser pass and can be parsed later when
 * its contents is requested.
 *
 * @author max
 */

public class ILazyParseableElementType extends IElementType {
  public ILazyParseableElementType(@NotNull @NonNls final String debugName) {
    this(debugName, null);
  }

  public ILazyParseableElementType(@NotNull @NonNls final String debugName, @Nullable final Language language) {
    super(debugName, language);
  }

  public ILazyParseableElementType(@NotNull @NonNls final String debugName, @Nullable final Language language, final boolean register) {
    super(debugName, language, register);
  }

  /**
   * Parses the contents of the specified chameleon node and returns the AST tree
   * representing the parsed contents.
   *
   * @param chameleon the node to parse.
   * @return the parsed contents of the node.
   */
  public ASTNode parseContents(final ASTNode chameleon) {
    final PsiElement parentElement = chameleon.getTreeParent().getPsi();
    assert parentElement != null : "Bad chameleon: " + chameleon;
    return doParseContents(chameleon, parentElement);
  }

  protected ASTNode doParseContents(@NotNull final ASTNode chameleon, @NotNull final PsiElement psi) {
    final Project project = psi.getProject();
    Language languageForParser = getLanguageForParser(psi);
    final PsiBuilder builder = PsiBuilderFactory.getInstance().createBuilder(project, chameleon, null, languageForParser, chameleon.getChars());
    final PsiParser parser = LanguageParserDefinitions.INSTANCE.forLanguage(languageForParser).createParser(project);
    return parser.parse(this, builder).getFirstChildNode();
  }

  protected Language getLanguageForParser(PsiElement psi) {
    return getLanguage();
  }

  @Nullable
  public ASTNode createNode(CharSequence text) {
    return null;
  }
}