project35.soa.validation
Class URLValidator

java.lang.Object
  project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService
      project35.soa.validation.URLValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, ServiceClass, EditFieldValidationService, FieldValidationService

public class URLValidator
extends AbstractEditFieldValidationService

Supposed to check whether field is a valid URL. However, this became a bit complicated considering users might type in relative or absolute paths, which wouldn't necessarily be in a URL format. It could check if the URL exists but that might end up annoying the user. This class will probably be removed in the next release.

Copyright (c) Kevin Garwood and University of Manchester 2007. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. For more information on the terms and conditions, please see the file "LICENSE" that is included in this distribution.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Kevin Garwood (kgarwood@users.sourceforge.net), code contributions from 2002 - September 30, 2007.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService

collator

Constructor Summary

URLValidator()

Method Summary

ArrayList

validate(Project35FormContext project35FormContext, String value) validates the field value and returns any error messages

Methods inherited from class project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService

getFieldName, getInitialisationParameters, initialiseService, isEmpty, isFieldRequired, setFieldName, setRequiredField, validateRequiredField

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

URLValidator

public URLValidator()

Method Detail

validate

public ArrayList validate(Project35FormContext project35FormContext,
                          String value)

Description copied from interface: EditFieldValidationService

validates the field value and returns any error messages

Specified by:

validate in interface EditFieldValidationService

Specified by:

validate in class AbstractEditFieldValidationService

value - the value of the field

Returns:

a collection of Alert instances that represent errors,warnings,points of information or requests for more information if no errors were found