org.sapia.validator.rules
Class ForEach

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

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

public class ForEach
extends CompositeRule

Aggregates one-to-many nested validatable(s), iterating over the items in a collection/iterator/array and passing each item to the validate method of the nested validatable(s).

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

See Also:

Validatable, Validatable.validate(ValidationContext)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.sapia.validator.CompositeRule

_stop

Constructor Summary

ForEach()
Constructor for ForEach.

Method Summary

void	setAttribute(String attr) Sets the name of the accessor that will be used to retreive a collection or array to validate from the current object on the validation context's stack.
void	validate(ValidationContext ctx) Validates this instance.

Methods inherited from class org.sapia.validator.CompositeRule

addValidatable, createRuleSet, handleObject, setStop

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

Constructor Detail

ForEach

public ForEach()

Constructor for ForEach.

Method Detail

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(String attr)

Sets the name of the accessor that will be used to retreive a collection or array to validate from the current object on the validation context's stack.

Parameters:

attr - the name of an accessor.

validate

public void validate(ValidationContext ctx)

Description copied from interface: Validatable

Validates this instance.

Specified by:

validate in interface Validatable

Overrides:

validate in class CompositeRule

See Also:

CompositeRule.validate(ValidationContext)