com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle

Class PackageObjectFactory

java.lang.Object

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

ModuleFactory

public class PackageObjectFactory
extends Object
implements ModuleFactory

A factory for creating objects from package names and names.

Author:

Rick Giles, lkuehne

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PackageObjectFactory(Set<String> packageNames, ClassLoader moduleClassLoader) Creates a new PackageObjectFactory instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	createModule(String name) Creates a new instance of a class from a given name, or that name concatenated with "Check".

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PackageObjectFactory

public PackageObjectFactory(Set<String> packageNames,
                            ClassLoader moduleClassLoader)

Creates a new PackageObjectFactory instance.

Parameters:

packageNames - the list of package names to use

moduleClassLoader - class loader used to load Checkstyle core and custom modules

Method Detail

createModule

public Object createModule(String name)
                    throws CheckstyleException

Creates a new instance of a class from a given name, or that name concatenated with "Check". If the name is a class name, creates an instance of the named class. Otherwise, creates an instance of a class name obtained by concatenating the given name to a package name from a given list of package names.

Specified by:

createModule in interface ModuleFactory

Parameters:

name - the name of a class.

Returns:

the Object created by loader.

Throws:

CheckstyleException - if an error occurs.