javax.validation.metadata
Interface ElementDescriptor

All Known Subinterfaces:

BeanDescriptor, PropertyDescriptor

public interface ElementDescriptor

Describes a validated element (class, field or property).

Author:

Emmanuel Bernard, Hardy Ferentschik

Method Summary

java.util.Set<ConstraintDescriptor<?>>	getConstraintDescriptors() Return all constraint descriptors for this element or an empty Set if none are present.
java.lang.Class<?>	getElementClass()
java.util.Set<ConstraintDescriptor<?>>	getUnorderedConstraintDescriptorsMatchingGroups(java.lang.Class<?>... groups) Return the list of matching constraints for a given set of groups for this element.
boolean	hasConstraints()

Method Detail

hasConstraints

boolean hasConstraints()

Returns:

true if at least one constraint declaration is present on the element, false otherwise.

getElementClass

java.lang.Class<?> getElementClass()

Returns:

Statically defined returned type.

getConstraintDescriptors

java.util.Set<ConstraintDescriptor<?>> getConstraintDescriptors()

Return all constraint descriptors for this element or an empty Set if none are present.

Returns:

Set of constraint descriptors for this element

getUnorderedConstraintDescriptorsMatchingGroups

java.util.Set<ConstraintDescriptor<?>> getUnorderedConstraintDescriptorsMatchingGroups(java.lang.Class<?>... groups)

Return the list of matching constraints for a given set of groups for this element. This method respects group sequences and group inheritance (including class-level Default group overriding) but does not return ConstraintDescriptors in any particular order. Specifically, ordering of the group sequence is not respected.

Parameters:

groups - groups targeted

Returns:

list of matching ConstraintDescriptors