weblogicx.jsp.tags.validators
Interface Customizable

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompareValidator, CustomizableAdapter, RegExpValidator, RequiredFieldValidator

public interface Customizable
extends Serializable

Interface to be implemented by clients wanting to substitute their own validate methods and thus creating new classes to be used as validatorClass attributes in the CustomValidator.

setFieldToValidate

void setFieldToValidate(String control)

field being validated

setErrorMessage

void setErrorMessage(String name)

error message being shown to the user.

setExpression

void setExpression(String type)

customExpression which may be used by the implementor for use in the validate method

validate

boolean validate(ServletRequest request)
                 throws Exception

users may use this method to validate the string value. for eg: the value must contain NYC or it must not contain XYZ or they may even validate it against the custom expression set optionally.

Parameters:

value - : received from the request parameter for this control

Returns:

boolean indicating operation status

Throws:

Exception