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package com.android.common.utils;

import com.android.common.annotations.NonNull;

/**
 * Interface used to display warnings/errors while parsing the SDK content.
 * <p/>
 * There are a few default implementations available:
 * <ul>
 * <li> {@link NullLogger} is an implementation that does <em>nothing</em> with the log.
 *  Useful for limited cases where you need to call a class that requires a non-null logging
 *  yet the calling code does not have any mean of reporting logs itself. It can be
 *  acceptable for use as a temporary implementation but most of the time that means the caller
 *  code needs to be reworked to take a logger object from its own caller.
 * </li>
 * <li> {@link StdLogger} is an implementation that dumps the log to {@link System#out} or
 *  {@link System#err}. This is useful for unit tests or code that does not have any GUI.
 *  GUI based apps based should not use it and should provide a better way to report to the user.
 * </li>
 * </ul>
 */
public interface ILogger {

    /**
     * Prints an error message.
     *
     * @param t is an optional {@link Throwable} or {@link Exception}. If non-null, its
     *          message will be printed out.
     * @param msgFormat is an optional error format. If non-null, it will be printed
     *          using a {@link java.util.Formatter} with the provided arguments.
     * @param args provides the arguments for errorFormat.
     */
    void error(Throwable t, String msgFormat, Object... args);

    /**
     * Prints a warning message.
     *
     * @param msgFormat is a string format to be used with a {@link java.util.Formatter}. Cannot be null.
     * @param args provides the arguments for warningFormat.
     */
    void warning(@NonNull String msgFormat, Object... args);

    /**
     * Prints an information message.
     *
     * @param msgFormat is a string format to be used with a {@link java.util.Formatter}. Cannot be null.
     * @param args provides the arguments for msgFormat.
     */
    void info(@NonNull String msgFormat, Object... args);

    /**
     * Prints a verbose message.
     *
     * @param msgFormat is a string format to be used with a {@link java.util.Formatter}. Cannot be null.
     * @param args provides the arguments for msgFormat.
     */
    void verbose(@NonNull String msgFormat, Object... args);

}