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Interface Completor

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArgumentCompletor, ClassNameCompletor, FileNameCompletor, MultiCompletor, NullCompletor, SimpleCompletor

public interface Completor

A Completor is the mechanism by which tab-completion candidates will be resolved.

Author:

Marc Prud'hommeaux

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	complete(String buffer, int cursor, List candidates) Populates candidates with a list of possible completions for the buffer.

Method Detail

complete

int complete(String buffer,
             int cursor,
             List candidates)

Populates candidates with a list of possible completions for the buffer. The candidates list will not be sorted before being displayed to the user: thus, the complete method should sort the List before returning.

Parameters:

buffer - the buffer

candidates - the List of candidates to populate

Returns:

the index of the buffer for which the completion will be relative