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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.Race; import com.virtusa.akura.common.AkuraWebConstant; import com.virtusa.akura.util.ValidatorExpressionUtil; /** * This class validates the fields of the Race domain object. * * @author Virtusa Corporation */ public class RaceValidator implements Validator { /** attribute for holding description. */ private static final String DESCRIPTION = "description"; /** * Return whether or not this object can validate objects of the Race class. * * @param clazz - the class of the Race * @return - a boolean true or false */ public boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) { return Race.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz); } /** * Validates the object of the Race. * * @param target - Populated object of Race 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, AkuraWebConstant.MANDATORY_FIELD_ERROR_CODE); Race race = (Race) target; String validatorPattern = ValidatorExpressionUtil.getValidatorPattern("REFERENCE.RACE.VALIDATOR"); Pattern stringOnly = Pattern.compile(validatorPattern); Matcher makeMatch = stringOnly.matcher(race.getDescription()); if (makeMatch.find()) { errors.rejectValue(DESCRIPTION, AkuraWebConstant.MISMATCH_ERROR); } } }