1   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2   // checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
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18  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
19  
20  package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
21  
22  /**
23   * A Component that needs context information from it's container(parent object) to work.
24   * The container will create a Context object and pass it to this
25   * Contextualizable. Contextualization will occur before configuration.
26   * Note: Configuring of object mean copy user defined properties to object.
27   * Contextualizing is inheriting some properties from parent that are provided by user
28   * to parent object or created by parent object.
29   * The general idea of Context/Contextualizable was taken from <a target="_top"
30   * href="http://avalon.apache.org/closed.html">Jakarta's Avalon framework</a>.
31   */
32  @FunctionalInterface
33  public interface Contextualizable {
34  
35      /**
36       * Sets the context for this Component.
37       * @param context the context.
38       * @throws CheckstyleException if there is a contextualization error.
39       */
40      void contextualize(Context context) throws CheckstyleException;
41  
42  }