////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// checkstyle: Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
// Copyright (C) 2001-2017 the original author or authors.
//
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package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableCollection;
/**
* A context to be used in subcomponents. The general idea of
* Context/Contextualizable was taken from <a target="_top"
* href="http://avalon.apache.org/closed.html">Jakarta's Avalon framework</a>.
* @author lkuehne
* @see Contextualizable
*/
public interface Context {
/**
* Searches for the value with the specified attribute key in this context.
* @param key the attribute key.
* @return the value in this context with the specified attribute key value.
*/
Object get(String key);
/**
* Returns the names of all attributes of this context.
* @return the names of all attributes of this context.
*/
ImmutableCollection<String> getAttributeNames();
}