platform/editor-ui-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/fileTypes/EditorHighlighterProvider.java

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package com.intellij.openapi.fileTypes;

import com.intellij.openapi.editor.colors.EditorColorsScheme;
import com.intellij.openapi.editor.highlighter.EditorHighlighter;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * @author yole
 */
public interface EditorHighlighterProvider {
  /**
   * Lower level API for customizing language's file syntax highlighting in editor component.
   *
   * @param project The project in which the highlighter will work, or null if the highlighter is not tied to any project.
   * @param fileType the file type of the file to be highlighted
   * @param virtualFile The file to be highlighted
   * @param colors color scheme highlighter shall be initialized with.   @return EditorHighlighter implementation
   */

  EditorHighlighter getEditorHighlighter(@Nullable Project project,
                                         @NotNull FileType fileType,
                                         @Nullable final VirtualFile virtualFile,
                                         @NotNull EditorColorsScheme colors);
}