net.sourceforge.jbizmo.commons.validation.util

Class ConstraintViolation

java.lang.Object

net.sourceforge.jbizmo.commons.validation.util.ConstraintViolation

public class ConstraintViolation
extends Object

Represents a violation of a constraint. Captures a message describing the violation. Note there may be violations of several constraints during the validation of a property. All these violations are captured as separate ConstraintViolation objects and typically rolled up as part of an overall validation result.

Copyright 2010 (C) by Martin Ganserer

Version:

1.0.0

Author:

Martin Ganserer

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ConstraintViolation(String message) Creates a ConstraintViolation with the violated constraint and message describing the violation

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getMessage() Text describing the violation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ConstraintViolation

public ConstraintViolation(String message)

Creates a ConstraintViolation with the violated constraint and message describing the violation

Parameters:

message -

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if constraint is null or message is null

Method Detail

getMessage

public String getMessage()

Text describing the violation. Note applications do not necessarily need to make use of this message, as they have enough information to create their own messages. In particular they know the constraint that was violated and the value that violated the constraint. As such this message can be considered a default message and is useful for logging etc.

Returns:

the message