/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ package org.apache.ivy.util; import java.util.List; /** * A MessageLogger is used to log messages. *
* Where the messages are logged is depending on the implementation. *
** This interface provides both level specific methods ({@link #info(String)}, {@link #warn(String)} * , ...) and generic methods ({@link #log(String, int)}, {@link #rawlog(String, int)}). Note that * calling level specific methods is usually not equivalent to calling the generic method with the * corresponding level. Indeed, for warn and error level, the implementation will actually log the * message at a lower level (usually {@link Message#MSG_VERBOSE}) and log the message at the actual * level only when {@link #sumupProblems()} is called. *
* * @see Message */ public interface MessageLogger { /** * Logs a message at the given level. *
* level
constants are defined in the {@link Message} class.
*