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Coverage Report - org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.AttributeValueReader

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 /**
  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
  *
  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
  *
  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
  *
  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation;
 
 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.exception.AttributeValidationException;
 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.capability.Constrainable;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
  * An interface to define classes that encapsulate access to both dictionary metadata and object field values, for example, by reflection
  * and introspection, for the purpose of performing validation against constraints defined in the DictionaryValidationService implementation. 
  * 
  * Practically speaking, this interface should only need to be implemented by a small number of classes. The two major use cases are for 
  * (1) a dictionary object with members 
  * (2) a specific member of a dictionary object
  * 
  * In the first case, implementing classes should provide access to all underlying members of the object via reflection or some other mechanism. 
  * In the second case, implementing classes only need to provide access to the value associated with that specific member, and constraints
  * requiring access to additional members will be skipped. 
  * 
  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
  * @since 1.1
  */
 public interface AttributeValueReader {
 
         /**
          * This method is an accessor for the attribute name that is currently being processed by the DictionaryValidationService implementation. 
          * 
          * @return the current attribute name being processed
          */
         public String getAttributeName();
         
         /**
          * This method provides access to the constrainable attribute definition of a specific attribute name. If the value of the metadata 
          * associated with the object field does not implement constrainable, or if no metadata is associated with this object field, 
          * then null should be returned. 
          * 
          * @param attributeName - the name of the attribute/field whose metadata is being requested
          * @return dictionary metadata object implementing some constrainable capability 
          */
         public Constrainable getDefinition(String attributeName);
         
         /**
          * This method returns a list of all constrainable dictionary metadata definitions for attributes or fields encapsulated by this object.
          * 
          * @return a list of constrainable definitions
          */
         public List<Constrainable> getDefinitions();
         
         /**
          * The dictionary metadata associated with an object (its "entry" in the dictionary) can also be constrainable, in which case the object
          * value itself can be validated against one or more constraints. If the specific entry for the dictionary object encapsulated by this 
          * reader is not constrainable, or if no entry exists for this dictionary object, or no dictionary object is being encapsulted, then
          * null should be returned. 
          * 
          * @return the constrainable dictionary entry metadata for this object, or null
          */
         public Constrainable getEntry();
         
         /**
          * An entry name should be returned for the purposes of correcting looking up errors, which are generally found by entry name +
          * attribute name + error key.
          * 
          * @return the name that the data dictionary uses to store metadata about this object (not its attributes)
          */
         public String getEntryName();
         
         /**
          * This method looks up a label for a specific attribute name. 
          * 
          * @param attributeName
          * @return some descriptive label that can be exposed to the end user for error messages
          */
         public String getLabel(String attributeName);
         
         /**
          * The underlying object itself (not the field/attribute value, but the object).  
          * 
          * @return the object that is being encapsulated by this reader, or null if no object is being encapsulated. 
          */
         public Object getObject();
         
         /**
          * The path is a string representation of specifically which attribute (at some depth) is being accessed, for example, on a 
          * person object there might be the following field path:
          * 
          * joe.home.mailingAddress.state
          * 
          * @return the string representation of the attribute identifier currently being processed
          */
         public String getPath();
         
         /**
          * The type of the attribute specified. A Java class. 
          * 
          * @param attributeName
          * @return the type of the attribute referenced by the passed name, or null if no attribute exists of that name
          */
         public Class<?> getType(String attributeName);
         
         /**
          * A convenience method for looking up the attribute value that is currently being processed. 
          * 
          * @param <X>
          * @return
          * @throws AttributeValidationException
          */
         public <X> X getValue() throws AttributeValidationException;
         
         /**
          * A method for looking up any attribute value by name for the object being processed. 
          * 
          * @param <X>
          * @param attributeName
          * @return
          * @throws AttributeValidationException
          */
         public <X> X getValue(String attributeName) throws AttributeValidationException;
         
         /**
          * A method to enable legacy processing of string representations of attribute values like a date range in the format 
          * 12/03/2001..1/29/2009 
          * 
          * @param attributeName
          * @return the list of token strings for the attribute value of the named attribute
          * @throws AttributeValidationException
          */
         public List<String> getCleanSearchableValues(String attributeName) throws AttributeValidationException;
         
         /**
          * Setter for the current attribute that is being processed.
          * 
          * @param attributeName
          */
         public void setAttributeName(String attributeName);
         
 }
 

1		/**
2		* Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
3		*
4		* Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5		* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6		* You may obtain a copy of the License at
7		*
8		* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9		*
10		* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11		* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12		* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13		* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14		* limitations under the License.
15		*/
16		package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation;
17
18		import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.exception.AttributeValidationException;
19		import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.capability.Constrainable;
20
21		import java.util.List;
22
23		/**
24		* An interface to define classes that encapsulate access to both dictionary metadata and object field values, for example, by reflection
25		* and introspection, for the purpose of performing validation against constraints defined in the DictionaryValidationService implementation.
26		*
27		* Practically speaking, this interface should only need to be implemented by a small number of classes. The two major use cases are for
28		* (1) a dictionary object with members
29		* (2) a specific member of a dictionary object
30		*
31		* In the first case, implementing classes should provide access to all underlying members of the object via reflection or some other mechanism.
32		* In the second case, implementing classes only need to provide access to the value associated with that specific member, and constraints
33		* requiring access to additional members will be skipped.
34		*
35		* @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
36		* @since 1.1
37		*/
38		public interface AttributeValueReader {
39
40		/**
41		* This method is an accessor for the attribute name that is currently being processed by the DictionaryValidationService implementation.
42		*
43		* @return the current attribute name being processed
44		*/
45		public String getAttributeName();
46
47		/**
48		* This method provides access to the constrainable attribute definition of a specific attribute name. If the value of the metadata
49		* associated with the object field does not implement constrainable, or if no metadata is associated with this object field,
50		* then null should be returned.
51		*
52		* @param attributeName - the name of the attribute/field whose metadata is being requested
53		* @return dictionary metadata object implementing some constrainable capability
54		*/
55		public Constrainable getDefinition(String attributeName);
56
57		/**
58		* This method returns a list of all constrainable dictionary metadata definitions for attributes or fields encapsulated by this object.
59		*
60		* @return a list of constrainable definitions
61		*/
62		public List<Constrainable> getDefinitions();
63
64		/**
65		* The dictionary metadata associated with an object (its "entry" in the dictionary) can also be constrainable, in which case the object
66		* value itself can be validated against one or more constraints. If the specific entry for the dictionary object encapsulated by this
67		* reader is not constrainable, or if no entry exists for this dictionary object, or no dictionary object is being encapsulted, then
68		* null should be returned.
69		*
70		* @return the constrainable dictionary entry metadata for this object, or null
71		*/
72		public Constrainable getEntry();
73
74		/**
75		* An entry name should be returned for the purposes of correcting looking up errors, which are generally found by entry name +
76		* attribute name + error key.
77		*
78		* @return the name that the data dictionary uses to store metadata about this object (not its attributes)
79		*/
80		public String getEntryName();
81
82		/**
83		* This method looks up a label for a specific attribute name.
84		*
85		* @param attributeName
86		* @return some descriptive label that can be exposed to the end user for error messages
87		*/
88		public String getLabel(String attributeName);
89
90		/**
91		* The underlying object itself (not the field/attribute value, but the object).
92		*
93		* @return the object that is being encapsulated by this reader, or null if no object is being encapsulated.
94		*/
95		public Object getObject();
96
97		/**
98		* The path is a string representation of specifically which attribute (at some depth) is being accessed, for example, on a
99		* person object there might be the following field path:
100		*
101		* joe.home.mailingAddress.state
102		*
103		* @return the string representation of the attribute identifier currently being processed
104		*/
105		public String getPath();
106
107		/**
108		* The type of the attribute specified. A Java class.
109		*
110		* @param attributeName
111		* @return the type of the attribute referenced by the passed name, or null if no attribute exists of that name
112		*/
113		public Class<?> getType(String attributeName);
114
115		/**
116		* A convenience method for looking up the attribute value that is currently being processed.
117		*
118		* @param <X>
119		* @return
120		* @throws AttributeValidationException
121		*/
122		public <X> X getValue() throws AttributeValidationException;
123
124		/**
125		* A method for looking up any attribute value by name for the object being processed.
126		*
127		* @param <X>
128		* @param attributeName
129		* @return
130		* @throws AttributeValidationException
131		*/
132		public <X> X getValue(String attributeName) throws AttributeValidationException;
133
134		/**
135		* A method to enable legacy processing of string representations of attribute values like a date range in the format
136		* 12/03/2001..1/29/2009
137		*
138		* @param attributeName
139		* @return the list of token strings for the attribute value of the named attribute
140		* @throws AttributeValidationException
141		*/
142		public List<String> getCleanSearchableValues(String attributeName) throws AttributeValidationException;
143
144		/**
145		* Setter for the current attribute that is being processed.
146		*
147		* @param attributeName
148		*/
149		public void setAttributeName(String attributeName);
150
151		}
152