ExplicitStateHighlighter (JHighlight 1.1.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

CppHighlighter, GroovyHighlighter, JavaHighlighter, JavaScriptHighlighter, XmlHighlighter
```
public interface ExplicitStateHighlighter
```
Provides access to the lexical scanning of a highlighted language.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 3108 $

Author:

Omnicore Software, Hans Kratz & Dennis Strein GbR, Geert Bevin (gbevin[remove] at uwyn dot com)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`byte`	`getNextToken()`	Obtain the next token from the scanner.
`int`	`getTokenLength()`	Returns the length of the matched text region.
`void`	`setReader(Reader reader)`	Sets the reader that will be used to receive the text data.

- Method Detail
  - setReader
```
void setReader(Reader reader)
```
    Sets the reader that will be used to receive the text data.
    
    Parameters:
    
    reader - the Reader that has to be used
  - getNextToken
```
byte getNextToken()
           throws IOException
```
    Obtain the next token from the scanner.
    
    Returns:
    
    one of the tokens that are define in the scanner
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException - when an error occurred during the parsing of the reader
  - getTokenLength
```
int getTokenLength()
```
    Returns the length of the matched text region.
    
    Returns:
    
    the length of the matched text region