Messager JDK 1.6)

Description

public interface Messager

A Messager provides the way for an annotation processor to report error messages, warnings, and other notices.

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.

See also: ProcessingEnvironment.getLocale()

Methods

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public void printMessage (Kind kind, CharSequence msg)

Prints a message of the specified kind.

public void printMessage (Kind kind, CharSequence msg, Element e)

Prints a message of the specified kind at the location of the element.

public void printMessage (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.

public void printMessage (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.