////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 // checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.

 // Copyright (C) 2001-2014  Oliver Burn

 //

 // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 // modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public

 // License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either

 // version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 //

 // This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU

 // Lesser General Public License for more details.

 //

 // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public

 // License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software

 // Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;

 /**

  * A Component that needs context information from it's container to work.

  * The container will create a Context object and pass it to this

  * Contextualizable. Contextualization will occur before configuration. The

  * general idea of Context/Contextualizable was taken from <a target="_top"

  * href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/">Jakarta's Avalon framework</a>.

  * @author lkuehne

  */

 public interface Contextualizable

 {

     /**

      * Sets the context for this Component.

      * @param aContext the context.

      * @throws CheckstyleException if there is a contextualization error.

      */

     void contextualize(Context aContext) throws CheckstyleException;

 }