Message Class

The Message class holds the information about a single message or multiple messages that were combined via a Combiner instance.

Information

The Message class contains the following information. All fields have their respective getters and setters.

Name	Description
text	Contents of the message
ranks	Truncated list of where the message originated
count	Total count of how many individual messages occurred
fileName	File name that generated the message
lineNumber	Line number that generated the message
level	Message severity (error, warning, debug, etc.)
tag	Tag for showing what part of the code generated the message

Functions

The Message class also contains the following helper functions to ease use of the class.

Name	Description
stringOfRanks	Returns a string of the ranks
pack	Returns a packed version of all the message’s information
unpack	Takes a packed message and overwrites all the message’s information
addRank	Add a rank to the message to the given limit
addRanks	Add ranks to the message to the given limit