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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.SportSub; import com.virtusa.akura.util.ValidatorExpressionUtil; /** * This validator class validates the fields of the SportSub domain object. * * @author Virtusa Corporation */ public class SportSubValidator implements Validator { /** error message for sport sub type. */ private static final String ERROR_SPORTSUB_TYPE = "REF.UI.FIELD.TYPE.SPORTSUB"; /** error message for sport sub description. */ private static final String ERROR_DESCRIPTION_REQUIRED = "REF.UI.DESCRIPTION.REQUIRED"; /** the field name to check. */ private static final String DESCRIPTION_EIELD = "description"; /** String key to hold "REFERENCE.SPORTSSUB.VALIDATOR". */ private static final String SPORTS_SUB_VALIDATOR = "REFERENCE.SPORTSSUB.VALIDATOR"; /** * Return whether or not this object can validate objects of the SportSub class. * * @param clazz - the class of the SportSub * @return - a boolean true or false */ @Override public boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) { return SportSub.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz); } /** * Validates the object of the SportSub. * * @param object - Populated object of SportSub to validate * @param err - Errors object that is building. May contain errors for the fields relating to types. */ @Override public void validate(Object object, Errors err) { ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(err, DESCRIPTION_EIELD, ERROR_DESCRIPTION_REQUIRED); SportSub sportSub = (SportSub) object; String validatorPattern = ValidatorExpressionUtil.getValidatorPattern(SPORTS_SUB_VALIDATOR); Pattern alphaNumericOnly = Pattern.compile(validatorPattern); String descript = sportSub.getDescription().trim(); String description = descript.replaceAll(" ", ""); Matcher makeMatch = alphaNumericOnly.matcher(description); if (makeMatch.find()) { err.rejectValue(DESCRIPTION_EIELD, ERROR_SPORTSUB_TYPE); } } }