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$Id$ |
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Copyright (C) 2008 Nicklas Nordborg |
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This file is part of BASE - BioArray Software Environment. |
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Available at http://base.thep.lu.se/ |
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BASE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 |
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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BASE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with BASE. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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package net.sf.basedb.util.overview.validator; |
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import net.sf.basedb.core.BaseException; |
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import net.sf.basedb.core.ItemNotFoundException; |
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A node validator factory is a class that know how to |
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create {@link NodeValidator}:s for a given key domain. |
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@author Nicklas |
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@version 2.10 |
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@base.modified $Date$ |
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public interface NodeValidatorFactory<L, K> |
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{ |
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Disable/enabled node validation programmatically. When a |
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node validator factory is disabled the {@link #createNodeValidator(Object)} |
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should return null or a {@link NullNodeValidator} for all |
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requests. |
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@param disabled TRUE to disable node validation |
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@since 2.11 |
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public void setDisabled(boolean disabled); |
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Check if node validation has been disabled. |
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@return TRUE if validation has been disabled |
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@since 2.11 |
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public boolean isDisabled(); |
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Create a node validator that knows how to validate nodes for items |
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that are specified by the given key. The key can be almost anything. |
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The interpretation of it is entirely up to the factory implementation. |
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@param key A key that can be used to identify which items the node |
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validator should handle |
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@return A node validator object, or null if no validator exists |
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@throws ItemNotFoundException If a node loader for the given key |
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can't be found. NOTE! Instead of throwing an exception it is possible |
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to simply return null or a {@link NullNodeValidator} or any other |
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"generic" implementation. |
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@throws BaseException If there is any other problem creating the |
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node validator |
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public NodeValidator<? extends L> createNodeValidator(K key); |
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} |