net.sourceforge.stripes.validation
Interface ValidationMetadataProvider

All Superinterfaces:

ConfigurableComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultValidationMetadataProvider

public interface ValidationMetadataProvider
extends ConfigurableComponent

Provides a globally accessible source of validation metadata for properties and nested properties of ActionBean classes.

Since:

Stripes 1.5

Author:

Ben Gunter

Method Summary

Map<String,ValidationMetadata>	getValidationMetadata(Class<?> beanType) Get a map of property names to ValidationMetadata for the given ActionBean class.
ValidationMetadata	getValidationMetadata(Class<?> beanType, ParameterName property) Get the validation metadata associated with the named property of the given ActionBean class.

Methods inherited from interface net.sourceforge.stripes.config.ConfigurableComponent

init

Method Detail

getValidationMetadata

Map<String,ValidationMetadata> getValidationMetadata(Class<?> beanType)

Get a map of property names to ValidationMetadata for the given ActionBean class.

Parameters:

beanType - any class

Returns:

A map of property names to ValidationMetadata. If no validation information is present for the given class, then an empty map will be returned.

getValidationMetadata

ValidationMetadata getValidationMetadata(Class<?> beanType,
                                         ParameterName property)

Get the validation metadata associated with the named property of the given ActionBean class.

Parameters:

beanType - any class

property - a (possibly nested) property of beanType

Returns:

A ValidationMetadata object, if there is one associated with the property. If the property is not to be validated, then null.