Ptidej-v5.2-master/PADL Creator JavaFile (Eclipse) Tests/data/argouml/trunk/src_new/org/argouml/language/java/generator/CodePiece.java
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/*
  JavaRE - Code generation and reverse engineering for UML and Java
  Author: Marcus Andersson andersson@users.sourceforge.net
*/


package org.argouml.language.java.generator;

/**
   A piece of code is a continuous part of a source code file. The
   code piece is going to be replaced by a string generated from the
   UML model.
*/
public abstract class CodePiece
{
    /**
     * @return the string representation for this piece of code
     */
    public abstract StringBuffer getText();

    /**
     *  @return the start position
     */
    public abstract int getStartPosition();

    /**
     * @return the end position
     */
    public abstract int getEndPosition();

    /**
     * @return the start line
     */
    public abstract int getStartLine();

    /**
     * @return the end line
     */
    public abstract int getEndLine();
}
