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
030    extends Configurable, Contextualizable {
031
032    /**
033     * Sets the MessageDispatcher that is used to dispatch audit events
034     * to AuditListeners during processing.
035     *
036     * @param dispatcher the dispatcher
037     */
038    void setMessageDispatcher(MessageDispatcher dispatcher);
039
040    /**
041     * Initialise the instance. This is the time to verify that everything
042     * required to perform its job.
043     */
044    void init();
045
046    /** Cleans up the object. **/
047    void destroy();
048
049    /**
050     * Called when about to be called to process a set of files.
051     *
052     * @param charset the character set used to read the files.
053     */
054    void beginProcessing(String charset);
055
056    /**
057     * Request to process a file. The implementation should use the supplied
058     * contents and not read the contents again. This reduces the amount of
059     * file I/O.
060     *
061     * <p>
062     * The file set to process might contain files that are not
063     * interesting to the FileSetCheck. Such files should be ignored,
064     * no audit event should be fired for them. For example a FileSetCheck
065     * that checks java files should ignore HTML or properties files.
066     * </p>
067     *
068     * <p>
069     * The method should return the set of violations to be logged.
070     * </p>
071     *
072     * @param file the file to be processed
073     * @param fileText the contents of the file.
074     * @return the sorted set of violations to be logged.
075     * @throws CheckstyleException if error condition within Checkstyle occurs
076     */
077    SortedSet<Violation> process(File file, FileText fileText) throws CheckstyleException;
078
079    /**
080     * Called when all the files have been processed. This is the time to
081     * perform any checks that need to be done across a set of files. In this
082     * method, the implementation is responsible for the logging of violations.
083     */
084    void finishProcessing();
085
086}