Source code: com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/Configurable.java
1 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
3 // Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Oliver Burn
4 //
5 // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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9 //
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18 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
20
21 /**
22 * A component that can be configured. The general idea of
23 * Configuration/Configurable was taken from <a target="_top"
24 * href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/">Jakarta's Avalon framework</a>.
25 * @author lkuehne
26 */
27 public interface Configurable
28 {
29 /**
30 * Configures this component.
31 * @param aConfiguration the configuration to use.
32 * @throws CheckstyleException if there is a configuration error.
33 */
34 void configure(Configuration aConfiguration) throws CheckstyleException;
35 }