1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // checkstyle: Checks Java source code and other text files for adherence to a set of rules.
3 // Copyright (C) 2001-2024 the original author or authors.
4 //
5 // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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9 //
10 // This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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14 //
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18 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19
20 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
21
22 /**
23 * A component that can be configured.
24 * Note: Configuring of object mean copy user defined properties to object.
25 * Contextualizing is inheriting some properties from parent that are provided by user
26 * to parent object or created by parent object.
27 * The general idea of
28 * Configuration/Configurable was taken from <a target="_top"
29 * href="https://avalon.apache.org/closed.html">Jakarta's Avalon framework</a>.
30 */
31 @FunctionalInterface
32 public interface Configurable {
33
34 /**
35 * Configures this component.
36 *
37 * @param configuration the configuration to use.
38 * @throws CheckstyleException if there is a configuration error.
39 */
40 void configure(Configuration configuration) throws CheckstyleException;
41
42 }