uk.ac.starlink.ttools.taplint

Interface Reporter

All Known Subinterfaces:

OutputReporter

All Known Implementing Classes:

HoldReporter, JsonOutputReporter, TextOutputReporter

public interface Reporter

Basic interface for logging validation messages.

Note that in earlier versions Reporter was a concrete class with more methods, used by the TapLinter harness class. That concrete class, which implements this interface, has now been renamed OutputReporter.

Since:

24 May 2016

Author:

Mark Taylor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	report(ReportCode code, String message) Reports a message.
void	report(ReportCode code, String message, Throwable err) Reports a message with an associated throwable.

Method Detail

report

void report(ReportCode code,
            String message)

Reports a message.

This convenience method is equivalent to calling report(code,message,null)

Parameters:

code - report code; messages with the same code should identify essentially the same condition

message - free-text message; it may be multi-line and/or longish, but may in practice be truncated on output

report

void report(ReportCode code,
            String message,
            Throwable err)

Reports a message with an associated throwable.

Parameters:

code - report code; messages with the same code should identify essentially the same condition

message - free-text message; it may be multi-line and/or longish, but may in practice be truncated on output

err - throwable