plugins/properties/properties-psi-api/src/com/intellij/lang/properties/IProperty.java

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package com.intellij.lang.properties;

import com.intellij.lang.properties.psi.PropertiesFile;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Iconable;
import com.intellij.pom.Navigatable;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiInvalidElementAccessException;
import com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * @author Dmitry Avdeev
 *         Date: 7/25/11
 */
public interface IProperty extends Navigatable, Iconable {

  String getName();

  PsiElement setName(String name);

  @Nullable
  String getKey();

  @Nullable
  String getValue();

  /**
   * Returns the value with \n, \r, \t, \f and Unicode escape characters converted to their
   * character equivalents.
   *
   * @return unescaped value, or null if no value is specified for this property.
   */
  @Nullable
  String getUnescapedValue();

  /**
   * Returns the key with \n, \r, \t, \f and Unicode escape characters converted to their
   * character equivalents.
   *
   * @return unescaped key, or null if no key is specified for this property.
   */
  @Nullable
  String getUnescapedKey();

  void setValue(@NonNls @NotNull String value) throws IncorrectOperationException;

  PropertiesFile getPropertiesFile() throws PsiInvalidElementAccessException;

  /**
   * @return text of comment preceding this property. Comment-start characters ('#' and '!') are stripped from the text.
   */
  @Nullable
  String getDocCommentText();

  @NotNull
  PsiElement getPsiElement();
}