Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 6

javax.annotation.processing
Interface Messager


public interface Messager

A Messager provides the way for an annotation processor to report error messages, warnings, and other notices. Elements, annotations, and annotation values can be passed to provide a location hint for the message. However, such location hints may be unavailable or only approximate.

Printing a message with an error kind will raise an error.

Note that the messages "printed" by methods in this interface may or may not appear as textual output to a location like System.out or System.err. Implementations may choose to present this information in a different fashion, such as messages in a window.

Since:
1.6
See Also:
ProcessingEnvironment.getLocale()

Method Summary
 void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind, CharSequence msg)
          Prints a message of the specified kind.
 void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind, CharSequence msg, Element e)
          Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the element.
 void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind, CharSequence msg, Element e, AnnotationMirror a)
          Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the annotation mirror of the annotated element.
 void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind, CharSequence msg, Element e, AnnotationMirror a, AnnotationValue v)
          Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the annotation value inside the annotation mirror of the annotated element.
 

Method Detail

printMessage

void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind,
                  CharSequence msg)
Prints a message of the specified kind.

Parameters:
kind - the kind of message
msg - the message, or an empty string if none

printMessage

void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind,
                  CharSequence msg,
                  Element e)
Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the element.

Parameters:
kind - the kind of message
msg - the message, or an empty string if none
e - the element to use as a position hint

printMessage

void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind,
                  CharSequence msg,
                  Element e,
                  AnnotationMirror a)
Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the annotation mirror of the annotated element.

Parameters:
kind - the kind of message
msg - the message, or an empty string if none
e - the annotated element
a - the annotation to use as a position hint

printMessage

void printMessage(Diagnostic.Kind kind,
                  CharSequence msg,
                  Element e,
                  AnnotationMirror a,
                  AnnotationValue v)
Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the annotation value inside the annotation mirror of the annotated element.

Parameters:
kind - the kind of message
msg - the message, or an empty string if none
e - the annotated element
a - the annotation containing the annotation value
v - the annotation value to use as a position hint

Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 6

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