src/main/java/org/apache/sling/validation/ValidationFailure.java

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package org.apache.sling.validation;

import java.util.ResourceBundle;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.osgi.annotation.versioning.ProviderType;

@ProviderType
public interface ValidationFailure {

    /**
     * @param resourceBundle ResourceBundle in which to look up the according message (used for i18n), if {@code null} is given, the default resource bundle is used.
     * @return the failure message
     */
    @NotNull String getMessage(ResourceBundle resourceBundle);

    /**
     * Returns the relative location of the property/resource/value which triggered this validation failure.
     * The location 
     * <ul>
     * <li>is relative to the resource given in the first parameter in case it was returned by {@link ValidationService#validate(org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource, org.apache.sling.validation.model.ValidationModel)} or {@link ValidationService#validateResourceRecursively(org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource, boolean, java.util.function.Predicate, boolean)} or</li>
     * <li>contains just the value name in case it was returned by {@link ValidationService#validate(org.apache.sling.api.resource.ValueMap, org.apache.sling.validation.model.ValidationModel)}</li>
     * </ul>
     * @return the location (usually the validated resource's property path).
     */
    @NotNull String getLocation();

    /**
     * @return the severity of this validation failure. If no explicit severity was set either in the validation model or in the validator, this returns {@code 0}.
     */
    int getSeverity();

}