SourceTracker (OpenJPA Utilities Library 4.1.0 API)

```
public interface SourceTracker
```
Interface that can optionally be implemented by metadata to include the source file from which the metadata was originally parsed.

Author:

Abe White

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type Field Description

static int SRC_ANNOTATIONS

static int SRC_OTHER

static int SRC_XML

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`getColNumber()`	Return the column number in the line of the file at which this instance was parsed.
`int`	`getLineNumber()`	Return the line number of the file at which this instance was parsed.
`String`	`getResourceName()`	Return the domain-meaningful name of the resource that was loaded from this source.
`File`	`getSourceFile()`	Return the file from which this instance was parsed.
`Object`	`getSourceScope()`	Return the domain-dependent scope of this instance within its file.
`int`	`getSourceType()`	Return the type of source.

- Field Detail
  - SRC_OTHER
```
static final int SRC_OTHER
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - SRC_ANNOTATIONS
```
static final int SRC_ANNOTATIONS
```
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    Constant Field Values
  - SRC_XML
```
static final int SRC_XML
```
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    Constant Field Values
- Method Detail
  - getSourceFile
```
File getSourceFile()
```
    Return the file from which this instance was parsed.
  - getSourceScope
```
Object getSourceScope()
```
    Return the domain-dependent scope of this instance within its file.
  - getSourceType
```
int getSourceType()
```
    Return the type of source.
  - getResourceName
```
String getResourceName()
```
    Return the domain-meaningful name of the resource that was loaded from this source. I.e., if we had loaded the source for a Java class, this would return the name of the class.
  - getLineNumber
```
int getLineNumber()
```
    Return the line number of the file at which this instance was parsed.
  - getColNumber
```
int getColNumber()
```
    Return the column number in the line of the file at which this instance was parsed.