org.apache.turbine.services.intake.validator
Class BooleanValidator

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.turbine.services.intake.validator.DefaultValidator
      org.apache.turbine.services.intake.validator.BooleanValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

InitableByConstraintMap, Validator

public class BooleanValidator

extends DefaultValidator

Validator for boolean field types.

Values are validated by attemting to match the value to a list of strings for true and false values. The string values are compared without reguard to case.
Valid values for Boolean.TRUE:

• TRUE
• T
• YES
• Y
• 1

Valid values for Boolean.FALSE:

• FALSE
• F
• NO
• N
• 0

Version:

$Id: BooleanValidator.java 264148 2005-08-29 14:21:04Z henning $

Author:

Quinton McCombs, Colin Chalmers

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.turbine.services.intake.validator.DefaultValidator

errorMessage, log, maxLength, maxLengthMessage, minLength, minLengthMessage, required, requiredMessage

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.turbine.services.intake.validator.Validator

FLEXIBLE_RULE_NAME, FORMAT_RULE_NAME, INVALID_NUMBER_RULE_NAME, MASK_RULE_NAME, MAX_LENGTH_RULE_NAME, MAX_VALUE_RULE_NAME, MIN_LENGTH_RULE_NAME, MIN_VALUE_RULE_NAME, REQUIRED_RULE_NAME

Constructor Summary

BooleanValidator()
Default Constructor

BooleanValidator(java.util.Map paramMap)
Constructor to use when initialising Object

Method Summary

void	assertValidity(java.lang.String testValue) Determine whether a testValue meets the criteria specified in the constraints defined for this validator
java.lang.Boolean	parse(java.lang.String stringValue) Parses a srting value into a Boolean object.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.turbine.services.intake.validator.DefaultValidator

getMaxLength, getMaxLengthMessage, getMessage, getMinLength, getMinLengthMessage, getRequiredMessage, init, isRequired, isValid, setMaxLength, setMaxLengthMessage, setMinLength, setMinLengthMessage, setRequired, setRequiredMessage

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BooleanValidator

public BooleanValidator()

Default Constructor

BooleanValidator

public BooleanValidator(java.util.Map paramMap)
                 throws InvalidMaskException

Constructor to use when initialising Object

Parameters:

paramMap -

Throws:

InvalidMaskException

Method Detail

assertValidity

public void assertValidity(java.lang.String testValue)
                    throws ValidationException

Determine whether a testValue meets the criteria specified in the constraints defined for this validator

Specified by:

assertValidity in interface Validator

Overrides:

assertValidity in class DefaultValidator

Parameters:

testValue - a String to be tested

Throws:

ValidationException - containing an error message if the testValue did not pass the validation tests.

parse

public java.lang.Boolean parse(java.lang.String stringValue)
                        throws java.text.ParseException

Parses a srting value into a Boolean object.

Parameters:

stringValue - the value to parse

Returns:

a Boolean object

Throws:

java.text.ParseException