org.hibernate.validator.cfg.context

Interface Cascadable<C extends Cascadable<C>>

All Known Subinterfaces:

ContainerElementConstraintMappingContext, ParameterConstraintMappingContext, PropertyConstraintMappingContext, ReturnValueConstraintMappingContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

ContainerElementConstraintMappingContextImpl

public interface Cascadable<C extends Cascadable<C>>

Facet of a constraint mapping creational context which allows to mark the underlying element as to be validated in a cascaded way.

Author:

Gunnar Morling, Kevin Pollet <kevin.pollet@serli.com> (C) 2011 SERLI

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
GroupConversionTargetContext<C>	convertGroup(Class<?> from) Adds a group conversion for this cascadable element.
C	valid() Marks the current element (property, parameter etc.) as cascadable.

Method Detail

valid

C valid()

Marks the current element (property, parameter etc.) as cascadable.

Returns:

The current creational context following the method chaining pattern.

convertGroup

GroupConversionTargetContext<C> convertGroup(Class<?> from)

Adds a group conversion for this cascadable element. Several conversions may be configured for one element.

Parameters:

from - the source group of the conversion to be configured

Returns:

a creational context allow to set the target group of the conversion