/*
* The Kuali Financial System, a comprehensive financial management system for higher education.
*
* Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.kuali.kfs.sys.document.validation;
import org.kuali.kfs.sys.document.validation.event.AttributedDocumentEvent;
/**
* An interface for a simple validation
*/
public interface Validation {
/**
* This method validates that certain parameters
* @param parameters a list of parameters to validate
* @return true if validation should continue, false otherwise
*/
public abstract boolean validate(AttributedDocumentEvent event);
/**
* Returns whether the validation process should quit on the failure of this validation
* @return true if the validation process should quit, false otherwise
*/
public abstract boolean shouldQuitOnFail();
/**
* Stages the execution of a Validation
* @param event the event the validate
* @return the boolean result of the staged Validation
*/
public abstract boolean stageValidation(AttributedDocumentEvent event);
}