platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/psi/SmartPointerManager.java

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package com.intellij.psi;

import com.intellij.openapi.components.ServiceManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.TextRange;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

/**
 * Allows to create references to PSI elements that can survive a reparse and return the corresponding
 * element in the PSI tree after the reparse.
 */
public abstract class SmartPointerManager {
  @NotNull
  public abstract SmartPsiFileRange createSmartPsiFileRangePointer(@NotNull PsiFile file, @NotNull TextRange range);

  public static SmartPointerManager getInstance(Project project) {
    return ServiceManager.getService(project, SmartPointerManager.class);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a smart pointer to the specified PSI element.
   *
   * @param element the element to create a pointer to.
   * @return the smart pointer instance.
   */
  @NotNull public abstract <E extends PsiElement> SmartPsiElementPointer<E> createSmartPsiElementPointer(@NotNull E element);
  @NotNull public abstract <E extends PsiElement> SmartPsiElementPointer<E> createSmartPsiElementPointer(@NotNull E element, PsiFile containingFile);

  /**
   * Creates a smart pointer to the specified PSI element which doesn't hold a strong reference to the PSI
   * element.
   * @deprecated use {@link #createSmartPsiElementPointer(PsiElement)} instead
   * @param element the element to create a pointer to.
   * @return the smart pointer instance.
   */
  @NotNull public <E extends PsiElement> SmartPsiElementPointer<E> createLazyPointer(@NotNull E element) {
    return createSmartPsiElementPointer(element);
  }

  /**
   * This method is cheaper than dereferencing both pointers and comparing the result.
   *
   * @param pointer1 smart pointer to compare
   * @param pointer2 smart pointer to compare
   * @return true if both pointers point to the same PSI element.
   */
  public abstract boolean pointToTheSameElement(@NotNull SmartPsiElementPointer pointer1, @NotNull SmartPsiElementPointer pointer2);
  public abstract boolean removePointer(@NotNull SmartPsiElementPointer pointer);
}