src/share/classes/javax/tools/Tool.java

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:16:40 -0700

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duke@1 25
duke@1 26 package javax.tools;
duke@1 27
duke@1 28 import java.util.Set;
duke@1 29 import java.io.InputStream;
duke@1 30 import java.io.OutputStream;
duke@1 31 import javax.lang.model.SourceVersion;
duke@1 32
duke@1 33 /**
duke@1 34 * Common interface for tools that can be invoked from a program.
duke@1 35 * A tool is traditionally a command line program such as a compiler.
duke@1 36 * The set of tools available with a platform is defined by the
duke@1 37 * vendor.
duke@1 38 *
duke@1 39 * <p>Tools can be located using {@link
duke@1 40 * java.util.ServiceLoader#load(Class)}.
duke@1 41 *
duke@1 42 * @author Neal M Gafter
duke@1 43 * @author Peter von der Ah&eacute;
duke@1 44 * @author Jonathan Gibbons
duke@1 45 * @since 1.6
duke@1 46 */
duke@1 47 public interface Tool {
duke@1 48
duke@1 49 /**
duke@1 50 * Run the tool with the given I/O channels and arguments. By
duke@1 51 * convention a tool returns 0 for success and nonzero for errors.
duke@1 52 * Any diagnostics generated will be written to either {@code out}
duke@1 53 * or {@code err} in some unspecified format.
duke@1 54 *
duke@1 55 * @param in "standard" input; use System.in if null
duke@1 56 * @param out "standard" output; use System.out if null
duke@1 57 * @param err "standard" error; use System.err if null
duke@1 58 * @param arguments arguments to pass to the tool
duke@1 59 * @return 0 for success; nonzero otherwise
duke@1 60 * @throws NullPointerException if the array of arguments contains
duke@1 61 * any {@code null} elements.
duke@1 62 */
duke@1 63 int run(InputStream in, OutputStream out, OutputStream err, String... arguments);
duke@1 64
duke@1 65 /**
duke@1 66 * Gets the source versions of the Java&trade; programming language
duke@1 67 * supported by this tool.
duke@1 68 * @return a set of supported source versions
duke@1 69 */
duke@1 70 Set<SourceVersion> getSourceVersions();
duke@1 71
duke@1 72 }

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