/**
* DataCleaner (community edition)
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* 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 Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.datacleaner.descriptors;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.Set;
import org.datacleaner.api.Validate;
/**
* Descriptor for a validation method. The most common way of registering a
* validateion method is using the @Validate annotation.
*
* @see Validate
*/
public interface ValidateMethodDescriptor extends Serializable {
/**
* Invokes the validate method
*
* @param component
* the component to validate
*/
void validate(Object component);
/**
* Gets the annotations of the method
*
* @return the annotations of the method
*/
Set<Annotation> getAnnotations();
/**
* Gets a particular annotation of the method
*
* @param <A>
* the annotation type
* @param annotationClass
* the annotation class to look for
* @return a matching annotation or null, if none is present
*/
<A extends Annotation> A getAnnotation(Class<A> annotationClass);
}