Package name.matthewgreet.strutscommons.policy

Interface CollectionPostConversionValidator<A extends Annotation,T>

All Superinterfaces:

Policy<A>, Validator<A>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCollectionPostConversionValidatorSupport, AbstractCustomCollectionPostConversionValidatorSupport

public interface CollectionPostConversionValidator<A extends Annotation,T>
extends Validator<A>

Interface for form field validators used by AnnotationValidationInterceptor and AnnotationValidationInterceptor2 that check a converted value.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	getProcessNoValue()	Returns whether validator should not be skipped if conversion failed or was skipped.
Class<T>	getRecipientClass()	Returns item types of recipient collection fields that can receive converted form value.
boolean	getShortCircuit()	Returns whether rejection by this validator should stop further validation.
ValidationResult	validate(Collection<T> formValue)	Returns result of checking converted form field value and message to use if failed.

Methods inherited from interface name.matthewgreet.strutscommons.policy.Policy

getAnnotation, setAnnotation

Methods inherited from interface name.matthewgreet.strutscommons.policy.Validator

getMessage, getMessageKey, getMessageType

Method Details

getRecipientClass

Class<T> getRecipientClass()

Returns item types of recipient collection fields that can receive converted form value. Not to be confused with collection type.

getShortCircuit

boolean getShortCircuit()

Returns whether rejection by this validator should stop further validation.

getProcessNoValue

boolean getProcessNoValue()

Returns whether validator should not be skipped if conversion failed or was skipped.

validate

ValidationResult validate(Collection<T> formValue)
                   throws Exception

Returns result of checking converted form field value and message to use if failed. This is not called if the form value is empty string or null or the conversion failed.

Throws:

Exception