Locator

All Known Implementing Classes:

EmptyLocator
```
public interface Locator
```
Interface for associating a Sink event with a document location.

Since:

2.0.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`getColumnNumber()`	Returns the column number for the sink event (starting from 1).
`int`	`getLineNumber()`	Returns the line number for the sink event (starting from 1).
`java.lang.String`	`getReference()`	Returns the underlying source reference (for file based documents a relative file path, otherwise an arbitrary string or `null`).

- Method Detail
  - getReference
```
java.lang.String getReference()
```
    Returns the underlying source reference (for file based documents a relative file path, otherwise an arbitrary string or null).
    
    Returns:
    
    the source for the sink event (may be null)
  - getLineNumber
```
int getLineNumber()
```
    Returns the line number for the sink event (starting from 1). If it is not known returns -1.
    
    Returns:
    
    the line number for the sink event
  - getColumnNumber
```
int getColumnNumber()
```
    Returns the column number for the sink event (starting from 1). If it is not known returns -1.
    
    Returns:
    
    the column number for the sink event