package org.apache.maven.model.building;

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import org.apache.maven.model.InputLocation;

/**
 * Collects problems that are encountered during model building. The primary purpose of this component is to account for
 * the fact that the problem reporter has/should not have information about the calling context and hence cannot provide
 * an expressive source hint for the model problem. Instead, the source hint is configured by the model builder before
 * it delegates to other components that potentially encounter problems. Then, the problem reporter can focus on
 * providing a simple error message, leaving the donkey work of creating a nice model problem to this component.
 * 
 * @author Benjamin Bentmann
 */
public interface ModelProblemCollector
{

    /**
     * Adds the specified problem.
     * 
     * @param severity The severity of the problem, must not be {@code null}.
     * @param message The detail message of the problem, may be {@code null}.
     * @param location The location of the problem, may be {@code null}.
     * @param cause The cause of the problem, may be {@code null}.
     */
    void add( ModelProblem.Severity severity, String message, InputLocation location, Exception cause );

}
