001///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
002// checkstyle: Checks Java source code and other text files for adherence to a set of rules.
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018///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
019
020package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
021
022import java.io.File;
023import java.util.SortedSet;
024
025/**
026 * Interface for Checking a set of files for some criteria.
027 *
028 */
029public interface FileSetCheck extends Configurable, Contextualizable {
030
031    /**
032     * Sets the MessageDispatcher that is used to dispatch audit events
033     * to AuditListeners during processing.
034     *
035     * @param dispatcher the dispatcher
036     */
037    void setMessageDispatcher(MessageDispatcher dispatcher);
038
039    /**
040     * Initialise the instance. This is the time to verify that everything
041     * required to perform its job.
042     */
043    void init();
044
045    /** Cleans up the object. */
046    void destroy();
047
048    /**
049     * Called when about to be called to process a set of files.
050     *
051     * @param charset the character set used to read the files.
052     */
053    void beginProcessing(String charset);
054
055    /**
056     * Request to process a file. The implementation should use the supplied
057     * contents and not read the contents again. This reduces the amount of file I/O.
058     *
059     * <p>
060     * The file set to process might contain files that are not
061     * interesting to the FileSetCheck. Such files should be ignored,
062     * no audit event should be fired for them. For example a FileSetCheck
063     * that checks java files should ignore HTML or properties files.
064     * </p>
065     *
066     * <p>
067     * The method should return the set of violations to be logged.
068     * </p>
069     *
070     * @param file the file to be processed
071     * @param fileText the contents of the file.
072     * @return the sorted set of violations to be logged.
073     * @throws CheckstyleException if error condition within Checkstyle occurs
074     */
075    SortedSet<Violation> process(File file, FileText fileText) throws CheckstyleException;
076
077    /**
078     * Called when all the files have been processed. This is the time to
079     * perform any checks that need to be done across a set of files. In this
080     * method, the implementation is responsible for the logging of violations.
081     */
082    void finishProcessing();
083
084}