001 /* 002 * Copyright 1999-2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 003 * 004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 007 * 008 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 009 * 010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 014 * limitations under the License. 015 */ 016 017 package org.apache.commons.latka; 018 019 import org.apache.commons.latka.http.Response; 020 021 /** 022 * This is the standard interface for custom validation of an HTTP 023 * Response in Latka. All custom validators need to implement 024 * a Validator class and a ValidationHandler class. 025 * 026 * @see org.apache.commons.latka.http.Response 027 * @see org.apache.commons.latka.xml.ValidationHandler 028 * 029 * @author Doug Sale 030 * @author dIon Gillard 031 * @version $Revision: 155424 $ 032 */ 033 public interface Validator { 034 035 /** 036 * Run custom validation. Latka will 037 * provide the HTTP response to this method. The implementer 038 * should throw a ValidationException if the Response fails 039 * to meet the validation criteria. 040 * 041 * @param response the HTTP response 042 * @throws ValidationException if the Response fails to be valid 043 */ 044 void validate(Response response) throws ValidationException; 045 }