platform/indexing-api/src/com/intellij/psi/search/IndexPatternProvider.java

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package com.intellij.psi.search;

import com.intellij.openapi.extensions.ExtensionPointName;
import com.intellij.util.messages.Topic;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;

/**
 * Provider of regular expression patterns the occurrences of which in the comments of
 * source code files are indexed by IDEA. Implementations of this interface need to be registered
 * as extensions for the <code>indexPatternProvider</code> extension point.
 *
 * @author yole
 * @since 5.1
 * @see com.intellij.psi.search.searches.IndexPatternSearch
 */
public interface IndexPatternProvider {
  ExtensionPointName<IndexPatternProvider> EP_NAME = ExtensionPointName.create("com.intellij.indexPatternProvider");

  Topic<PropertyChangeListener> INDEX_PATTERNS_CHANGED = new Topic<PropertyChangeListener>("index patterns changed", PropertyChangeListener.class);

  /**
   * The property the change of which should be reported to the property change listener
   * when the list of index patterns is changed.
   *
   * @see #addPropertyChangeListener(java.beans.PropertyChangeListener)
   */
  @NonNls String PROP_INDEX_PATTERNS = "indexPatterns";

  /**
   * Returns the list of index patterns the occurrences of which should be indexed by IDEA.
   *
   * @return the array of index patterns
   */
  @NotNull IndexPattern[] getIndexPatterns();
}