1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2013 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
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9 *
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kew.rule;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.validation.RuleValidationContext;
19 import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.validation.ValidationResults;
20
21 /**
22 * A simple interface for handling validation of rules. Validation results are returned in a
23 * ValidationResults object which consists of a series of error messages regarding the
24 * rule. The user who is adding or editing the rule is passed to validate as well as the
25 * rule to be validated.
26 *
27 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
28 */
29 public interface RuleValidationAttribute {
30
31 /**
32 * Validates the rule within the given RuleValidationContext.
33 *
34 * @return a ValidationResults object representing the results of the validation, if this is
35 * empty or <code>null</code> this signifies that validation was successful.
36 */
37 public ValidationResults validate(RuleValidationContext validationContext);
38
39 }