1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 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,
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.service;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.validation.result.DictionaryValidationResult;
19 import org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.view.View;
20 import org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.view.ViewModel;
21
22
23 /**
24 * Validation service for KRAD views
25 *
26 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
27 */
28 public interface ViewValidationService {
29
30 /**
31 * This is the main validation method that should be used when validating Views
32 * Validates the view based on the model passed in, this will correctly use previousView by default
33 * as it automatically contains the generated data the validation requires.
34 * @param model
35 * @return DictionaryValidationResult that contains any errors/messages if any, messages will have already
36 * been added to the MessageMap
37 */
38 public DictionaryValidationResult validateView(ViewModel model);
39
40 /**
41 * Additional validation method when you want to explicitly define the View being validated. Note
42 * that the view must have the correct binding information on its InputFields already generated by
43 * its lifecycle for this method to be used correctly.
44 * @param view
45 * @param model
46 * @return DictionaryValidationResult that contains any errors/messages if any,, messages will have already
47 * been added to the MessageMap
48 */
49 public DictionaryValidationResult validateView(View view, ViewModel model);
50
51 }