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19 package org.apache.maven.model.building;
20
21 /**
22 * Collects problems that are encountered during model building. The primary purpose of this component is to account for
23 * the fact that the problem reporter has/should not have information about the calling context and hence cannot provide
24 * an expressive source hint for the model problem. Instead, the source hint is configured by the model builder before
25 * it delegates to other components that potentially encounter problems. Then, the problem reporter can focus on
26 * providing a simple error message, leaving the donkey work of creating a nice model problem to this component.
27 *
28 * @deprecated use {@link org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelBuilder} instead
29 */
30 @Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
31 public interface ModelProblemCollector {
32
33 /**
34 * Adds the specified problem.
35 *
36 * @param req must not be null
37 */
38 void add(ModelProblemCollectorRequest req);
39 }