org.sapia.validator
Class CompositeRule

java.lang.Object
  org.sapia.validator.Rule
      org.sapia.validator.CompositeRule

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectCreationCallback, org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectHandlerIF, Validatable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ForEach

public class CompositeRule
extends Rule
implements org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectHandlerIF

An instance of this class is intended to hold other validation rules.

Author:

Yanick Duchesne

Copyright:

Copyright © 2002-2003 Sapia Open Source Software. All Rights Reserved.

License:

Read the license.txt file of the jar or visit the license page at the Sapia OSS web site

Field Summary

protected boolean

_stop

Constructor Summary

CompositeRule()
Constructor for CompositeRule.

Method Summary

void	addValidatable(Validatable v) Adds a Validatable to this instance.
RuleSet	createRuleSet() Creates a rule set and returns it.
void	handleObject(String name, Object validatable)
void	setStop(boolean stop) Sets the "stop" flag to true or false.
void	validate(ValidationContext ctx) Validates this instance.

Methods inherited from class org.sapia.validator.Rule

createMessage, getErrorMessageFor, getErrorMessages, getId, initName, localName, onCreate, prefix, qualifiedName, setErrorMessages, setId

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

_stop

protected boolean _stop

Constructor Detail

CompositeRule

public CompositeRule()

Constructor for CompositeRule.

Method Detail

addValidatable

public void addValidatable(Validatable v)

Adds a Validatable to this instance.

Parameters:

a - Validatable.

setStop

public void setStop(boolean stop)

Sets the "stop" flag to true or false. This flag meaning is as follows: when an instance of this class processes its nested rules, it will continue with the next rule even if the previous one generated an error, provided this flag is set to false.

This feature allows for subsequent rules to be processed even if validation errors have previously been created; thus, in such a case, the ValidationContext could potentially contain more than one instance of ValidationErr.

Parameters:

stop - this instance's "stop" flag.

See Also:

ValidationContext, ValidationErr

createRuleSet

public RuleSet createRuleSet()

Creates a rule set and returns it.

Returns:

a RuleSet.

handleObject

public void handleObject(String name,
                         Object validatable)
                  throws org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ConfigurationException

Specified by:

handleObject in interface org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectHandlerIF

Throws:

org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ConfigurationException

See Also:

ObjectHandlerIF.handleObject(String, Object)

validate

public void validate(ValidationContext ctx)

Description copied from interface: Validatable

Validates this instance.

Specified by:

validate in interface Validatable

Specified by:

validate in class Rule

See Also:

Rule.validate(ValidationContext)