com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api

Interface FileSetCheck

public interface FileSetCheck extends Configurable, Contextualizable

Interface for Checking a set of files for some criteria.

Author: lkuehne

Method Summary
voiddestroy()
Cleans up the object.
voidprocess(File[] aFiles)
Processes a set of files and fires errors to the MessageDispatcher.
voidsetMessageDispatcher(MessageDispatcher aDispatcher)
Sets the MessageDispatcher that is used to dispatch error messages to AuditListeners during processing.

Method Detail

destroy

public void destroy()
Cleans up the object. *

process

public void process(File[] aFiles)
Processes a set of files and fires errors to the MessageDispatcher. The file set to process might contain files that are not interesting to the FileSetCheck. Such files should be ignored, no error message should be fired for them. For example a FileSetCheck that checks java files should ignore html or properties files. Once processiong is done, it is highly recommended to call for the destroy method to close and remove the listeners.

Parameters: aFiles the files to be audited.

See Also: destroy

setMessageDispatcher

public void setMessageDispatcher(MessageDispatcher aDispatcher)
Sets the MessageDispatcher that is used to dispatch error messages to AuditListeners during processing.

Parameters: aDispatcher the dispatcher