Package org.nuiton.validator

Interface NuitonValidatorProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractNuitonValidatorProvider, XWork2NuitonValidatorProvider

public interface NuitonValidatorProvider

Provider of NuitonValidator. An implementation of a such class provides a implementation of a validator models and also of validator. Note: Providers are used in the NuitonValidatorFactory and should be registered via the ServiceLoader api.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Tony Chemit - chemit@codelutin.com

See Also:

NuitonValidatorModel, NuitonValidator, ServiceLoader

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
SortedSet<NuitonValidator<?>>	detectValidators(File sourceRoot, Pattern contextFilter, NuitonValidatorScope[] scopes, Class<?>... types)	Detects in the given directory validators.
<O> NuitonValidatorModel<O>	getModel(Class<O> type, String context, NuitonValidatorScope... scopes)	Obtain a validator model, the model should be cached and not be reinstanciated at each time a validator model is asked.
String	getName()	Obtains the name of the provider.
<O> NuitonValidatorModel<O>	newModel(Class<O> type, String context, NuitonValidatorScope... scopes)	Instanciate a new validator model for the given parameters.
<O> NuitonValidator<O>	newValidator(NuitonValidatorModel<O> model)	Obtains a new validator for the given model.

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Obtains the name of the provider.

Returns:

the name of the provider.

getModel

<O> NuitonValidatorModel<O> getModel(Class<O> type,
                                     String context,
                                     NuitonValidatorScope... scopes)

Obtain a validator model, the model should be cached and not be reinstanciated at each time a validator model is asked.

Type Parameters:

O - type of the class to validate

Parameters:

type - type of the class to validate

context - context of validation (null if no context)

scopes - filtered scope (if nothing given, then use all scopes)

Returns:

the cached model of validation

newModel

<O> NuitonValidatorModel<O> newModel(Class<O> type,
                                     String context,
                                     NuitonValidatorScope... scopes)

Instanciate a new validator model for the given parameters.

Type Parameters:

O - type of the class to validate

Parameters:

type - type of the class to validate

context - context of validation (null if no context)

scopes - filtered scope (if nothing given, then use all scopes)

Returns:

the new instanciated model of validation

newValidator

<O> NuitonValidator<O> newValidator(NuitonValidatorModel<O> model)

Obtains a new validator for the given model.

Type Parameters:

O - type of class to validate

Parameters:

model - the model of validator to use

Returns:

the new validator

detectValidators

SortedSet<NuitonValidator<?>> detectValidators(File sourceRoot,
                                               Pattern contextFilter,
                                               NuitonValidatorScope[] scopes,
                                               Class<?>... types)

Detects in the given directory validators.

Parameters:

sourceRoot - root directory where to seek for validators

contextFilter - the pattern of context to seek

scopes - scopes to seek (if none given, will seek for all scopes)

types - types of class to seek

Returns:

the set of validators found