BeanValidator

This is the interface for validating and updating an entire bean. The BeanValidator is the core interface and uses two methods:

validateBean – Validates the properties of the source bean, adding any validation errors to the errors property of pContext

updateBean – Validates property values and places them into the target object.

ListUpdatingValidator

This class extends the UnorderedCollection’s component UpdatingValidator to add code that updates an order in the case where order is important.

MapUpdatingValidator

The class that implements UpdatingValidator and BeanValidator and can update the map with homogeneous values.

PayloadSchemaBuilder

This helper class creates validators from the configuration beans.

PayloadSchemaRegistry

The class that parses the payload schema XML and builds configuration beans and instantiates validators. This class provides a way to fetch a named validator or its schema configuration. For additional information on the PayloadSchemaRegistry, refer to Using the Payload Schema Registry section.

UpdatingValidator

This is the interface that extends Validator and allows you to update a single property.

Validator

This is the interface for validating a single property value.

The Validator interface, which validates individual properties, uses the following methods:

validateBeanProperty – Retrieves the named property and invokes the validateValue method. This enables simple validators to be written by overriding the validateValue method

validateValue – This method can be overridden when creating simple validators

ValidatorContext

This class holds the errors, the current parent property path and other contextual data that is used during validation. For detailed information on the ValidatorContext, refer to Configuring the Validator Context Class section.

ValidatorManager

The class that implements UpdatingValidator and BeanValidator. It also contains a map from property names to Validator, as well as validates and updates named properties of a dynamic bean.