001////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
002// checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
003// Copyright (C) 2001-2018 the original author or authors.
004//
005// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
006// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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008// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
009//
010// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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013// Lesser General Public License for more details.
014//
015// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
016// License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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018////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
019
020package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
021
022/**
023 * A component that can be configured.
024 * Note: Configuring of object mean copy user defined properties to object.
025 * Contextualizing is inheriting some properties from parent that are provided by user
026 * to parent object or created by parent object.
027 * The general idea of
028 * Configuration/Configurable was taken from <a target="_top"
029 * href="http://avalon.apache.org/closed.html">Jakarta's Avalon framework</a>.
030 * @author lkuehne
031 */
032@FunctionalInterface
033public interface Configurable {
034
035    /**
036     * Configures this component.
037     * @param configuration the configuration to use.
038     * @throws CheckstyleException if there is a configuration error.
039     */
040    void configure(Configuration configuration) throws CheckstyleException;
041
042}