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#!/usr/bin/env python
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"""Interface for a linter error handler.
Error handlers aggregate a set of errors from multiple files and can optionally
perform some action based on the reported errors, for example, logging the error
or automatically fixing it.
"""
__author__ = ('robbyw@google.com (Robert Walker)',
'ajp@google.com (Andy Perelson)')
class ErrorHandler(object):
"""Error handler interface."""
def __init__(self):
if self.__class__ == ErrorHandler:
raise NotImplementedError('class ErrorHandler is abstract')
def HandleFile(self, filename, first_token):
"""Notifies this ErrorHandler that subsequent errors are in filename.
Args:
filename: The file being linted.
first_token: The first token of the file.
"""
def HandleError(self, error):
"""Append the error to the list.
Args:
error: The error object
"""
def FinishFile(self):
"""Finishes handling the current file.
Should be called after all errors in a file have been handled.
"""
def GetErrors(self):
"""Returns the accumulated errors.
Returns:
A sequence of errors.
"""