Scanner.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2008, SnakeYAML
 *
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 *
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package org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner;

import org.yaml.snakeyaml.tokens.Token;

/**
 * This interface represents an input stream of {@link Token}s.
 * <p>
 * The parser and the scanner form together the 'Parse' step in the loading process (see chapter 3.1
 * of the <a href="http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/">YAML Specification</a>).
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.yaml.snakeyaml.tokens.Token
 */
public interface Scanner {

  /**
   * Check if the next token is one of the given types.
   *
   * @param choices token IDs to match with
   * @return <code>true</code> if the next token is one of the given types. Returns
   *         <code>false</code> if no more tokens are available.
   * @throws ScannerException Thrown in case of malformed input.
   */
  boolean checkToken(Token.ID... choices);

  /**
   * Check if the next token is the given type.
   *
   * @param choice token ID to match with
   * @return <code>true</code> if the next token is the given type. Returns <code>false</code> if no
   *         more tokens are available.
   * @throws ScannerException Thrown in case of malformed input.
   */
  default boolean checkToken(Token.ID choice) {
    return checkToken(new Token.ID[] {choice});
  }

  /**
   * Return the next token, but do not delete it from the stream.
   *
   * @return The token that will be returned on the next call to {@link #getToken}
   * @throws ScannerException Thrown in case of malformed input.
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if no more token left
   */
  Token peekToken();

  /**
   * Returns the next token.
   * <p>
   * The token will be removed from the stream. (Every invocation of this method must happen after
   * calling either {@link #checkToken} or {@link #peekToken()}
   * </p>
   *
   * @return the coming token
   * @throws ScannerException Thrown in case of malformed input.
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if no more token left
   */
  Token getToken();

  void resetDocumentIndex();
}