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/*
Wotonomy: OpenStep design patterns for pure Java applications.
Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Powers
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, see http://www.gnu.org
*/
package net.wotonomy.control;
/**
* EOValidation provides methods for validating a operation on an object as a
* whole, rather than on an individual property.
*
* @author michael@mpowers.net
* @author $Author: cgruber $
* @version $Revision: 893 $
*/
public interface EOValidation {
/**
* Validates this object for delete. Throws an exception if this object cannot
* be deleted.
*/
void validateForDelete();
/**
* Validates this object for insertion into the external store. Throws an
* exception if this object cannot be inserted. Validations here should be
* specific to insertion. Implementations may call validateForSave().
*/
void validateForInsert();
/**
* Validates this object for a commit to the external store. Throws an exception
* if this object cannot be committed. Validations here are not specific to
* either inserts or updates.
*/
void validateForSave();
/**
* Validates this object for update to the external store. Throws an exception
* if this object cannot be updated. Validations here should be specific to
* updates. Implementations may call validateForSave().
*/
void validateForUpdate();
}
/*
* $Log$ Revision 1.1 2006/02/16 13:19:57 cgruber Check in all sources in
* eclipse-friendly maven-enabled packages.
*
* Revision 1.1 2001/11/13 04:13:59 mpowers Added interfaces needed to begin
* work on EOCustomObject.
*
*
*/
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