Source code: com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/FileSetCheck.java
1 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
3 // Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Oliver Burn
4 //
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18 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
20
21 import java.io.File;
22
23 /**
24 * Interface for Checking a set of files for some criteria.
25 *
26 * @author lkuehne
27 */
28 public interface FileSetCheck
29 extends Configurable, Contextualizable
30 {
31 /**
32 * Sets the MessageDispatcher that is used to dispatch error
33 * messages to AuditListeners during processing.
34 * @param aDispatcher the dispatcher
35 */
36 void setMessageDispatcher(MessageDispatcher aDispatcher);
37
38 /**
39 * Processes a set of files and fires errors to the MessageDispatcher.
40 *
41 * The file set to process might contain files that are not
42 * interesting to the FileSetCheck. Such files should be ignored,
43 * no error message should be fired for them. For example a FileSetCheck
44 * that checks java files should ignore html or properties files.
45 *
46 * Once processiong is done, it is highly recommended to call for
47 * the destroy method to close and remove the listeners.
48 *
49 * @param aFiles the files to be audited.
50 * @see #destroy()
51 */
52 void process(File[] aFiles);
53
54 /** Cleans up the object. **/
55 void destroy();
56 }