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+/*
+ * Copyright 2010-2023 JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin Programming Language contributors.
+ * Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the license/LICENSE.txt file.
+ */
+
+package org.jetbrains.kotlin.analysis.test.framework.directives
+
+import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.analysis.project.structure.KtModule
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.analysis.providers.analysisMessageBus
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.analysis.providers.topics.KotlinModuleStateModificationKind
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.analysis.providers.topics.KotlinTopics
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.test.directives.model.SimpleDirectivesContainer
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.test.directives.model.singleValue
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.test.model.TestModule
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.test.testFramework.runWriteAction
+
+object ModificationEventDirectives : SimpleDirectivesContainer() {
+    val MODIFICATION_EVENT by enumDirective<ModificationEventKind>(
+        description = "The modification event to be raised by the test.",
+    )
+}
+
+enum class ModificationEventKind {
+    MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION,
+    MODULE_OUT_OF_BLOCK_MODIFICATION,
+    GLOBAL_MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION,
+    GLOBAL_SOURCE_MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION,
+    GLOBAL_SOURCE_OUT_OF_BLOCK_MODIFICATION,
+}
+
+/**
+ * Publishes a modification event as defined in [KotlinTopics][org.jetbrains.kotlin.analysis.providers.topics.KotlinTopics] based on the
+ * [ModificationEventDirectives.MODIFICATION_EVENT] directive in a write action.
+ *
+ * The function expects exactly one `MODIFICATION_EVENT` directive to be present in the registered directives.
+ *
+ * @param module The module for which module-level modification events should be published, or `null` if only global modification events
+ *  should be published. (Specifying a module-level modification event kind then raises an error.)
+ */
+fun TestModule.publishModificationEventByDirective(project: Project, module: KtModule?) {
+    val modificationEventKind = directives.singleValue(ModificationEventDirectives.MODIFICATION_EVENT)
+
+    publishModificationEventByKind(modificationEventKind, project, module)
+}
+
+private fun publishModificationEventByKind(modificationEventKind: ModificationEventKind, project: Project, module: KtModule?) {
+    runWriteAction {
+        when (modificationEventKind) {
+            ModificationEventKind.MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION -> {
+                project.analysisMessageBus
+                    .syncPublisher(KotlinTopics.MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION)
+                    .onModification(
+                        module ?: errorModuleRequired(),
+                        KotlinModuleStateModificationKind.UPDATE,
+                    )
+            }
+
+            ModificationEventKind.MODULE_OUT_OF_BLOCK_MODIFICATION -> {
+                project.analysisMessageBus
+                    .syncPublisher(KotlinTopics.MODULE_OUT_OF_BLOCK_MODIFICATION)
+                    .onModification(module ?: errorModuleRequired())
+            }
+
+            ModificationEventKind.GLOBAL_MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION -> {
+                project.analysisMessageBus.syncPublisher(KotlinTopics.GLOBAL_MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION).onModification()
+            }
+
+            ModificationEventKind.GLOBAL_SOURCE_MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION -> {
+                project.analysisMessageBus.syncPublisher(KotlinTopics.GLOBAL_SOURCE_MODULE_STATE_MODIFICATION).onModification()
+            }
+
+            ModificationEventKind.GLOBAL_SOURCE_OUT_OF_BLOCK_MODIFICATION -> {
+                project.analysisMessageBus.syncPublisher(KotlinTopics.GLOBAL_SOURCE_OUT_OF_BLOCK_MODIFICATION).onModification()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private fun errorModuleRequired(): Nothing = error("Cannot publish a module-level modification event without a module.")