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/* * < KURA, This application manages the daily activities of a Teacher and a Student of a School> * * Copyright (C) 2012 Virtusa Corporation. * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. */ package com.virtusa.akura.common.validator; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import org.springframework.validation.Errors; import org.springframework.validation.ValidationUtils; import org.springframework.validation.Validator; import com.virtusa.akura.api.dto.City; import com.virtusa.akura.common.AkuraWebConstant; /** * This validator class validates the fields of the City domain object. * * @author Virtusa Corporation */ public class CityValidator implements Validator { /** attribute for holding regular expression to replace. */ private static final String STRING_REGEX = "( )+"; /** attribute for holding space character. */ private static final String STRING_SPACE = " "; /** attribute for holding regular expression. */ private static final String REGE_EXP = "[^A-Za-z- ]"; /** attribute for holding description. */ private static final String DESCRIPTION = "description"; /** * Return whether or not this object can validate objects of the City class. * * @param clazz - the class of the City * @return - a boolean true or false */ public boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) { return City.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz); } /** * Validates the object of the City. * * @param target - Populated object of City to validate * @param errors - Errors object that is building. May contain errors for the fields relating to types. */ public void validate(Object target, Errors errors) { City city = (City) target; ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(errors, DESCRIPTION, AkuraWebConstant.MANDATORY_FIELD_ERROR_CODE); Pattern stringOnly = Pattern.compile(REGE_EXP); String description = city.getDescription().trim(); if (city.getDescription().trim().length() > 0) { description = description.replaceAll(STRING_REGEX, STRING_SPACE); Matcher makeMatch = stringOnly.matcher(description); if (makeMatch.find()) { errors.rejectValue(DESCRIPTION, AkuraWebConstant.MISMATCH_ERROR); } } } }