1 /*
2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
4 * distributed with this work for additional information
5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
9 *
10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
11 *
12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
17 * under the License.
18 */
19 package org.apache.maven.surefire.api.report;
20
21 import org.apache.maven.surefire.api.suite.RunResult;
22
23 /**
24 * Used by the providers to request (per-thread) run listeners.
25 *
26 * @author Kristian Rosenvold
27 */
28 public interface ReporterFactory {
29 /**
30 * Creates a reporter listener.
31 *
32 * @return new reporter listener instance
33 */
34 TestReportListener<TestOutputReportEntry> createTestReportListener();
35
36 /**
37 * Closes the factory, freeing resources allocated in the factory.
38 *
39 * @return The run result
40 */
41 RunResult close();
42 }