01: /*
02: * Copyright 2005-2006 The Kuali Foundation.
03: *
04: *
05: * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
06: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
07: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17: package edu.iu.uis.eden.routetemplate;
18:
19: import edu.iu.uis.eden.validation.RuleValidationContext;
20: import edu.iu.uis.eden.validation.ValidationResults;
21:
22: /**
23: * A simple interface for handling validation of rules. Validation results are returned in a
24: * ValidationResults object which consists of a series of error messages regarding the
25: * rule. The user who is adding or editing the rule is passed to validate as well as the
26: * rule to be validated.
27: *
28: * @author ewestfal
29: */
30: public interface RuleValidationAttribute {
31:
32: /**
33: * Validates the rule within the given RuleValidationContext.
34: *
35: * @return a ValidationResults object representing the results of the validation, if this is
36: * empty or <code>null</code> this signifies that validation was successful.
37: */
38: public ValidationResults validate(
39: RuleValidationContext validationContext) throws Exception;
40:
41: }
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