| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved. |
| * |
| * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
| * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
| * You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| * limitations under the License. |
| * |
| */ |
| |
| package org.apache.zest.api.constraint; |
| |
| import java.io.Serializable; |
| import java.lang.annotation.Annotation; |
| |
| /** |
| * All Constraints must implement this interface, which is used for each |
| * value validation. |
| */ |
| public interface Constraint<ANNOTATION extends Annotation, TYPE> |
| extends Serializable |
| { |
| /** |
| * For each value or parameter which should be checked this method will be invoked. |
| * If the method returns true the value is valid. If it returns false the value |
| * is considered invalid. When all constraints have been checked a ConstraintViolationException |
| * will be thrown with all the constraint violations that were found. |
| * |
| * @param annotation the annotation to match |
| * @param value the value to be checked |
| * |
| * @return true if valid, false if invalid |
| */ |
| boolean isValid( ANNOTATION annotation, TYPE value ); |
| } |