Interface DocumentationTool.DocumentationTask

All Superinterfaces:
Callable<Boolean>
Enclosing interface:
DocumentationTool
public static interface DocumentationTool.DocumentationTask
extends Callable<Boolean>

Interface representing a future for a documentation task. The task has not yet started. To start the task, call the call method.

Before calling the call method, additional aspects of the task can be configured, for example, by calling the setLocale method.

Methods

Modifier and Type Method Description
void addModules​(Iterable<String> moduleNames)

Adds root modules to be taken into account during module resolution.
Boolean call()

Performs this documentation task.
void setLocale​(Locale locale)

Sets the locale to be applied when formatting diagnostics and other localized data.

Methods

addModules

void addModules(Iterable<String> moduleNames)

Adds root modules to be taken into account during module resolution. Invalid module names may cause either IllegalArgumentException to be thrown, or diagnostics to be reported when the task is started.

Parameters:
moduleNames - the names of the root modules
Throws:
IllegalArgumentException - may be thrown for some invalid module names
IllegalStateException - if the task has started
Since:
9

setLocale

void setLocale(Locale locale)

Sets the locale to be applied when formatting diagnostics and other localized data.

Parameters:
locale - the locale to apply; null means apply no locale
Throws:
IllegalStateException - if the task has started

call

Boolean call()

Performs this documentation task. The task may only be performed once. Subsequent calls to this method throw IllegalStateException.

Specified by:
call in interface Callable<Boolean>
Returns:
true if and only all the files were processed without errors; false otherwise
Throws:
RuntimeException - if an unrecoverable error occurred in a user-supplied component. The cause will be the error in user code.
IllegalStateException - if called more than once

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