package org.apache.velocity.exception;

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/**
 * All Exceptions that can provide additional information about the place
 * where the error happened (template name, column and line number) can
 * implement this interface and the ParseErrorException will then be able
 * to deal with this information.
 *
 * @author <a href="hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a>
 * @version $Id$
 * @since 1.5
 */
public interface ExtendedParseException
{
    /**
     * returns the Template name where this exception occured.
     * @return The Template name where this exception occured.
     */
    String getTemplateName();

    /**
     * returns the line number where this exception occured.
     * @return The line number where this exception occured.
     */
    int getLineNumber();

    /**
     * returns the column number where this exception occured.
     * @return The column number where this exception occured.
     */
    int getColumnNumber();
}