platform/analysis-api/src/com/intellij/codeInspection/ProblemDescriptionsProcessor.java

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package com.intellij.codeInspection;

import com.intellij.codeInspection.reference.RefEntity;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Collects the results of a global inspection.
 *
 * @author anna
 * @since 6.0
 * @see GlobalInspectionTool#runInspection
 */
public interface ProblemDescriptionsProcessor {
  /**
   * Returns the problems which have been collected for the specified reference graph node.
   *
   * @param refEntity the reference graph node.
   * @return the problems found for the specified node.
   */
  @Nullable
  CommonProblemDescriptor[] getDescriptions(@NotNull RefEntity refEntity);

  /**
   * Drops all problems which have been collected for the specified reference graph node.
   *
   * @param refEntity the reference graph node.
   */
  void ignoreElement(@NotNull RefEntity refEntity);

  /**
   * Registers a problem or several problems, with optional quickfixes, for the specified
   * reference graph node.
   *
   * @param refEntity                the reference graph node.
   * @param commonProblemDescriptors the descriptors for the problems to register.
   */
  void addProblemElement(@Nullable RefEntity refEntity, @NotNull CommonProblemDescriptor... commonProblemDescriptors);

  RefEntity getElement(@NotNull CommonProblemDescriptor descriptor);
}