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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:
+*
+* Trace API parser plug-in
+*
+*/
+package com.nokia.tracecompiler.plugin;
+
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.engine.TraceLocation;
+import com.nokia.tracecompiler.engine.TraceCompilerEngineErrorCodes.TraceCompilerErrorCode;
+
+/**
+ * Trace API parser plug-in
+ * 
+ */
+public interface TraceAPIParser {
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the tag to be located from source
+	 * 
+	 * @return the tag
+	 */
+	public String getSourceTag();
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the list of suffixes that are allowed with the source tag
+	 * 
+	 * @return the suffixes
+	 */
+	public String[] getTagSuffixes();
+
+	/**
+	 * Verifies the validity of given location
+	 * 
+	 * @param location
+	 *            the location to be checked
+	 * @return error code from TraceCompilerErrorCodes
+	 */
+	public TraceCompilerErrorCode checkLocationValidity(TraceLocation location);
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the name of the group where locations created by this parser belong
+	 * 
+	 * @return the location group
+	 */
+	public String getLocationGroup();
+
+}