com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api
Interface Contextualizable

All Known Subinterfaces:

FileSetCheck

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFileSetCheck, AbstractViolationReporter, AutomaticBean, Check, Checker, DefaultLogger, SeverityMatchFilter, SuppressionCommentFilter, SuppressionFilter, TreeWalker, XMLLogger

public interface Contextualizable

A Component that needs context information from it's container to work. The container will create a Context object and pass it to this Contextualizable. Contextualization will occur before configuration. The general idea of Context/Contextualizable was taken from Jakarta's Avalon framework.

Author:

lkuehne

Method Summary

void	contextualize(Context aContext) Sets the context for this Component.

Method Detail

contextualize

void contextualize(Context aContext)
                   throws CheckstyleException

Sets the context for this Component.

Parameters:

aContext - the context.

Throws:

CheckstyleException - if there is a contextualization error.