01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 org.apache.cocoon.forms.validation;
18:
19: import org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.WidgetDefinition;
20: import org.w3c.dom.Element;
21:
22: /**
23: *
24: * @version $Id: WidgetValidatorBuilder.java 449149 2006-09-23 03:58:05Z crossley $
25: */
26: public interface WidgetValidatorBuilder {
27:
28: String ROLE = WidgetValidatorBuilder.class.getName();
29:
30: /**
31: * Builds a {@link WidgetValidator} for a particular widget definition.
32: *
33: * @param validationRuleElement the DOM element defining the validator
34: * @param definition the widget definition the validator will have to validate.
35: * This may be used to check applicability of the validator to the widget.
36: * @return A {@link WidgetValidator}
37: * @throws Exception if some problem occurs
38: */
39: WidgetValidator build(Element validationRuleElement,
40: WidgetDefinition definition) throws Exception;
41: }
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