Package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api

Interface RootModule

All Superinterfaces:

Configurable

All Known Implementing Classes:

Checker

public interface RootModule
extends Configurable

The first module that is run as part of Checkstyle and controls its entire behavior and children.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addListener(AuditListener listener)	Add the listener that will be used to receive events from the audit.
void	destroy()	Cleans up the object.
int	process(List<File> files)	Processes a set of files.
void	setModuleClassLoader(ClassLoader moduleClassLoader)	Sets the classloader used to load Checkstyle core and custom module classes when the module tree is being built up.

Methods inherited from interface com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configurable

configure

Method Details

destroy

void destroy()

Cleans up the object.

process

int process(List<File> files)
     throws CheckstyleException

Processes a set of files. Once this is done, it is highly recommended to call for the destroy method to close and remove the listeners.

Parameters:

files - the list of files to be audited.

Returns:

the total number of audit events with error severity found

Throws:

CheckstyleException - if error condition within Checkstyle occurs

See Also:

• destroy()

addListener

void addListener(AuditListener listener)

Add the listener that will be used to receive events from the audit.

Parameters:

listener - the nosy thing

setModuleClassLoader

void setModuleClassLoader(ClassLoader moduleClassLoader)

Sets the classloader used to load Checkstyle core and custom module classes when the module tree is being built up. If no custom ModuleFactory is being set for the root module then this module classloader must be specified.

Parameters:

moduleClassLoader - the classloader used to load module classes