001/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 002 The Kiwi Toolkit - A Java Class Library 003 Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Mark A. Lindner 004 005 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 006 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 007 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 008 License, or (at your option) any later version. 009 010 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 011 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 012 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 013 General Public License for more details. 014 015 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 016 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 017 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 018 02111-1307, USA. 019 020 The author may be contacted at: mark_a_lindner@yahoo.com 021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 022 $Log: LoggingEndpoint.java,v $ 023 Revision 1.6 2004/05/05 21:22:45 markl 024 Comment header updates. 025 026 Revision 1.5 2003/01/19 09:42:39 markl 027 Javadoc & comment header updates. 028 029 Revision 1.4 2001/09/26 07:05:36 markl 030 Version fixes, email address fixes. 031 032 Revision 1.3 2001/03/12 05:43:34 markl 033 Javadoc cleanup. 034 035 Revision 1.2 1999/01/10 03:47:05 markl 036 added GPL header & RCS tag 037 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 038*/ 039 040package kiwi.util; 041 042import java.io.IOException; 043 044/** Logging endpoint interface. A logging endpoint accepts messages and writes 045 * them to a file, a graphical console window, or some other type of data 046 * sink. 047 * 048 * @author Mark Lindner 049 */ 050 051public interface LoggingEndpoint 052 { 053 054 /** Informational message type. */ 055 public static final int INFO = 0; 056 057 /** Status message type. */ 058 public static final int STATUS = 1; 059 060 /** Warning message type. */ 061 public static final int WARNING = 2; 062 063 /** Error condition message type. */ 064 public static final int ERROR = 3; 065 066 /** Accept a new message. Writes the message to the data sink. 067 * 068 * @param type The message type; one of the static constants defined above. 069 * @param message The message. 070 */ 071 072 public void logMessage(int type, String message); 073 074 /** Close the logging endpoint. The logging endpoint is closed. Once a 075 * logging endpoint is closed, it cannot accept any more messages. 076 */ 077 078 public void close(); 079 } 080 081/* end of source file */