com.ca.jcs.validator.core
Class RegexValidator

java.lang.Object
  com.ca.jcs.validator.core.RegexValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

StringValidator

public class RegexValidator
extends Object
implements StringValidator

Validate single or multiple values stored for an attribute against a regular expression provided in metadata, also an optional description of value set matching the expression can be provided.

Field Summary

static String	BRIEF_PREFIX When used as the prefix of the validation failure string means the regular expression itself is not put in the failure message (NOT_REGEX_MATCH_BRIEF_MSG is used instead of NOT_REGEX_MATCH_MSG).
static String	NOT_REGEX_MATCH_BRIEF_MSG
static String	NOT_REGEX_MATCH_MSG

Constructor Summary

RegexValidator(String regex, String regexDescr)

RegexValidator(String style, String regex, String regexDescr)

Method Summary

ErrorMessages

validate(String value) Validate the provided value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NOT_REGEX_MATCH_MSG

public static final String NOT_REGEX_MATCH_MSG

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Constant Field Values

NOT_REGEX_MATCH_BRIEF_MSG

public static final String NOT_REGEX_MATCH_BRIEF_MSG

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Constant Field Values

BRIEF_PREFIX

public static final String BRIEF_PREFIX

When used as the prefix of the validation failure string means the regular expression itself is not put in the failure message (NOT_REGEX_MATCH_BRIEF_MSG is used instead of NOT_REGEX_MATCH_MSG).

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

RegexValidator

public RegexValidator(String regex,
                      String regexDescr)

RegexValidator

public RegexValidator(String style,
                      String regex,
                      String regexDescr)

Method Detail

validate

public ErrorMessages validate(String value)

Description copied from interface: StringValidator

Validate the provided value.

Specified by:

validate in interface StringValidator

Parameters:

value - Value to be validated.

Returns:

Null if value has desired format, and otherwise one or more error messages where only their msgFormatId field needs to be set.