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// 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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//
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//
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package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api;
/**
* A Component that needs context information from it's container(parent object) to work.
* The container will create a Context object and pass it to this
* Contextualizable. Contextualization will occur before configuration.
* Note: Configuring of object mean copy user defined properties to object.
* Contextualizing is inheriting some properties from parent that are provided by user
* to parent object or created by parent object.
* 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
*/
public interface Contextualizable {
/**
* Sets the context for this Component.
* @param context the context.
* @throws CheckstyleException if there is a contextualization error.
*/
void contextualize(Context context) throws CheckstyleException;
}