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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.Nationality; import com.virtusa.akura.util.ValidatorExpressionUtil; /** * This class validates the fields of the Nationality domain object. * * @author Virtusa Corporation */ public class NationalityValidator implements Validator { /** * Return whether or not this object can validate objects of the Nationality class. * * @param clazz - the class of the Nationality * @return - a boolean true or false */ public boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) { return Nationality.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz); } /** * Validates the object of the Nationality. * * @param target - Populated object of Nationality 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) { ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(errors, "description", "REF.UI.NATIONALITY.DESCRIPTION.REQUIRED"); Nationality nationality = (Nationality) target; String validatorPattern = ValidatorExpressionUtil.getValidatorPattern("REFERENCE.NATIONALITY.VALIDATOR"); Pattern stringOnly = Pattern.compile(validatorPattern); String description = nationality.getDescription().trim(); description = description.replaceAll("( )+", " "); Matcher makeMatch = stringOnly.matcher(description); if (makeMatch.find()) { errors.rejectValue("description", "REF.UI.FIELD.TYPE"); } } }