sonarqube/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/profiles/ProfileDefinition.java

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package org.sonar.api.profiles;

import org.sonar.api.ExtensionPoint;
import org.sonar.api.server.ServerSide;
import org.sonar.api.server.profile.BuiltInQualityProfilesDefinition;
import org.sonar.api.utils.ValidationMessages;

/**
 * Define a profile which is automatically registered during sonar startup.
 * The components <code>AnnotationProfileParser</code> and <code>XMLProfileParser</code> can be used to help implementing the method create().
 *
 * @since 2.3
 * @deprecated since 6.6 use {@link BuiltInQualityProfilesDefinition}
 */
@ServerSide
@ExtensionPoint
@Deprecated
public abstract class ProfileDefinition {

  public abstract RulesProfile createProfile(ValidationMessages validation);

}