SyntaxHighlighter (PMD Designer 7.0.0-rc4 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ApexSyntaxHighlighter, AvailableSyntaxHighlighters, JavaSyntaxHighlighter, LexerBasedHighlighter, ModelicaSyntaxHighlighter, ScalaSyntaxHighlighter, SimpleRegexSyntaxHighlighter, XmlSyntaxHighlighter, XPathSyntaxHighlighter
```
public interface SyntaxHighlighter
```
Language-specific engine for syntax highlighting.

Since:

6.0.0

Author:

Clément Fournier

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`org.fxmisc.richtext.model.StyleSpans<Collection<String>>`	`computeHighlighting(String text)`	Computes the syntax highlighting on the given text.
`String`	`getLanguageTerseName()`	Gets the terse name of the language this highlighter cares for.

- Method Detail
  - getLanguageTerseName
```
String getLanguageTerseName()
```
    Gets the terse name of the language this highlighter cares for. That's used as a css class for text regions.
    
    Returns:
    
    The terse name of the language
  - computeHighlighting
```
org.fxmisc.richtext.model.StyleSpans<Collection<String>> computeHighlighting(String text)
```
    Computes the syntax highlighting on the given text. The returned spans are exactly the length of the given text.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - The text
    
    Returns:
    
    The computed style spans