public interface Validator
This interface is totally divorced from any infrastructure or context; that is to say it is not coupled to validating only objects in the web tier, the data-access tier, or the whatever-tier. As such it is amenable to being used in any layer of an application, and supports the encapsulation of validation logic as a first-class citizen in its own right.
Find below a simple but complete Validator
implementation, which validates that the various String
properties of a UserLogin
instance are not empty
(that is they are not null
and do not consist
wholly of whitespace), and that any password that is present is
at least 'MINIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH'
characters in length.
public class UserLoginValidator implements Validator { private static final int MINIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH = 6; public boolean supports(Class clazz) { return UserLogin.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz); } public void validate(Object target, Errors errors) { ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(errors, "userName", "field.required"); ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(errors, "password", "field.required"); UserLogin login = (UserLogin) target; if (login.getPassword() != null && login.getPassword().trim().length() < MINIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH) { errors.rejectValue("password", "field.min.length", new Object[]{Integer.valueOf(MINIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH)}, "The password must be at least [" + MINIMUM_PASSWORD_LENGTH + "] characters in length."); } } }
See also the Spring reference manual for a fuller discussion of
the Validator
interface and it's role in an enterprise
application.
Errors
,
ValidationUtils
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
---|---|
boolean |
supports(java.lang.Class<?> clazz)
|
void |
validate(java.lang.Object target,
Errors errors)
Validate the supplied
target object, which must be
of a Class for which the supports(Class) method
typically has (or would) return true . |
boolean supports(java.lang.Class<?> clazz)
void validate(java.lang.Object target, Errors errors)
target
object, which must be
of a Class
for which the supports(Class)
method
typically has (or would) return true
.
The supplied errors
instance can be used to report
any resulting validation errors.
target
- the object that is to be validated (can be null
)errors
- contextual state about the validation process (never null
)ValidationUtils