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// Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
//
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package org.apache.tapestry.ioc;
/**
* A kind of tag applied to other objects to identify where they came from, in terms of a file (the
* resource), a line number, and a column number. This is part of "line precise exception
* reporting", whereby errors at runtime can be tracked backwards to the files from which they were
* parsed or otherwise constructed.
*/
public interface Location
{
/**
* The resource from which the object tagged with a location was derived.
*/
Resource getResource();
/**
* The line number within the resource, if known, or -1 otherwise.
*/
int getLine();
/**
* The column number within the line if known, or -1 otherwise.
*/
int getColumn();
}