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/**
* The lexical analyzer maps an input stream consisting of ASCII
* characters and Unicode escapes into a token sequence.
*
* <p><b>This is NOT part of any supported API.
* If you write code that depends on this, you do so at your own risk.
* This code and its internal interfaces are subject to change or
* deletion without notice.</b>
*/
public interface Lexer {
/**
* Has a @deprecated been encountered in last doc comment?
* This needs to be reset by client with resetDeprecatedFlag.
*/
boolean deprecatedFlag();
void resetDeprecatedFlag();
/**
* Returns the documentation string of the current token.
*/
/**
* Return the last character position of the current token.
*/
int endPos();
/**
* Return the position where a lexical error occurred;
*/
int errPos();
/**
* Set the position where a lexical error occurred;
*/
/**
* Build a map for translating between line numbers and
* positions in the input.
*
* @return a LineMap
*/
/**
* Returns a copy of the input buffer, up to its inputLength.
* Unicode escape sequences are not translated.
*/
char[] getRawCharacters();
/**
* Returns a copy of a character array subset of the input buffer.
* The returned array begins at the <code>beginIndex</code> and
* extends to the character at index <code>endIndex - 1</code>.
* Thus the length of the substring is <code>endIndex-beginIndex</code>.
* This behavior is like
* <code>String.substring(beginIndex, endIndex)</code>.
* Unicode escape sequences are not translated.
*
* @param beginIndex the beginning index, inclusive.
* @param endIndex the ending index, exclusive.
* @throws IndexOutOfBounds if either offset is outside of the
* array bounds
*/
/**
* Return the name of an identifier or token for the current token.
*/
/**
* Read token.
*/
void nextToken();
/**
* Return the current token's position: a 0-based
* offset from beginning of the raw input stream
* (before unicode translation)
*/
int pos();
/**
* Return the last character position of the previous token.
*/
int prevEndPos();
/**
* Return the radix of a numeric literal token.
*/
int radix();
/**
* The value of a literal token, recorded as a string.
* For integers, leading 0x and 'l' suffixes are suppressed.
*/
/**
* Return the current token, set by nextToken().
*/
/**
* Sets the current token.
*/
}