001 package org.apache.maven.model.building; 002 003 /* 004 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 005 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 006 * distributed with this work for additional information 007 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 008 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 009 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 010 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 015 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 016 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 017 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 018 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 019 * under the License. 020 */ 021 022 import java.util.List; 023 import org.apache.maven.model.InputLocation; 024 025 /** 026 * Collects problems that are encountered during model building. The primary purpose of this component is to account for 027 * the fact that the problem reporter has/should not have information about the calling context and hence cannot provide 028 * an expressive source hint for the model problem. Instead, the source hint is configured by the model builder before 029 * it delegates to other components that potentially encounter problems. Then, the problem reporter can focus on 030 * providing a simple error message, leaving the donkey work of creating a nice model problem to this component. 031 * 032 * @author Benjamin Bentmann 033 */ 034 public interface ModelProblemCollector 035 { 036 037 /** 038 * Adds the specified problem. 039 * 040 * @param req must not be null 041 */ 042 void add( ModelProblemCollectorRequest req ); 043 044 }