platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/lang/BracePair.java

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package com.intellij.lang;

import com.intellij.psi.tree.IElementType;

/**
 * Defines a single pair of braces which need to be matched when editing code in a custom language.
 *
 * @author max
 * @see PairedBraceMatcher
 */

public class BracePair {
  private final IElementType myLeftBrace;
  private final IElementType myRightBrace;
  private final boolean myStructural;

  /**
   * Creates a new brace pair instance.
   *
   * @param leftBrace      the lexer token type for the left brace in the pair.
   * @param rightBrace     the lexer token type for the right brace in the pair.
   * @param structural     if true, the brace is considered structural (see {@link #isStructural()} for details)
   */
  public BracePair(final IElementType leftBrace, final IElementType rightBrace, final boolean structural) {
    myLeftBrace = leftBrace;
    myRightBrace = rightBrace;
    myStructural = structural;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the lexer token type for the left brace in the pair.
   *
   * @return token type
   */
  public IElementType getLeftBraceType() {
    return myLeftBrace;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the lexer token type for the right brace in the pair.
   *
   * @return token type
   */
  public IElementType getRightBraceType() {
    return myRightBrace;
  }

  /**
   * Returns true if the brace is structural. Structural braces have higher priority than regular braces:
   * they are matched with each other even if there are unmatched braces of other types between them,
   * and an opening non-structural brace is not matched with a closing one if one of them is outside a pair
   * of matched structural braces and another is outside. In Java code, the curly braces are structural.
   *
   * @return true if the brace is structural, false otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isStructural() {
    return myStructural;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "BracePair{" +
           "myLeftBrace=" + myLeftBrace +
           ", myRightBrace=" + myRightBrace +
           ", myStructural=" + myStructural +
           '}';
  }
}