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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2007 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:
+*
+* Interface to location parser
+*
+*/
+package com.nokia.tracecompiler.project;
+
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.engine.TraceLocation;
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.engine.TraceCompilerEngineErrorCodes.TraceCompilerErrorCode;
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.engine.source.SourceParserRule.TraceConversionResult;
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.model.TraceCompilerException;
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.source.SourceExcludedArea;
+
+/**
+ * Interface to location parser. The parser is implemented into the project API
+ * 
+ */
+public interface TraceLocationParser {
+
+	/**
+	 * Processes a newly parsed location. The location has not yet been
+	 * associated with a trace.
+	 * 
+	 * @param location
+	 *            the new location
+	 */
+	public void processNewLocation(TraceLocation location);
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the group where locations created by this parser belong
+	 * 
+	 * @return the location group
+	 */
+	public String getLocationGroup();
+
+	/**
+	 * Converts a location to trace
+	 * 
+	 * @param location
+	 *            the location to be parsed
+	 * @return properties for new trace
+	 * @throws TraceCompilerException
+	 *             if the location cannot be converted
+	 */
+	public TraceConversionResult convertLocation(TraceLocation location)
+			throws TraceCompilerException;
+
+	/**
+	 * Finds the comment related to given location
+	 * 
+	 * @param location
+	 *            the location to be checked
+	 * @return the comment related to the location or null if not found
+	 */
+	public SourceExcludedArea findLocationComment(TraceLocation location);
+
+	/**
+	 * Determines if a location parsed from source should be automatically
+	 * converted to a trace. This is called only if
+	 * isLocationAutoConvertSupported has returned true
+	 * 
+	 * @param location
+	 *            the location to be checked
+	 * 
+	 * @return true if automatically converted, false if not
+	 */
+	public boolean isLocationConverted(TraceLocation location);
+
+	/**
+	 * Checks if a location matches its trace
+	 * 
+	 * @param location
+	 *            the location to be checked
+	 * @return error code from TraceCompilerErrorCodes
+	 */
+	public TraceCompilerErrorCode checkLocationValidity(TraceLocation location);
+
+}