1 /*
2 * Copyright 1999-2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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15 */
16
17 package org.apache.commons.latka;
18
19 import org.apache.commons.latka.http.Response;
20
21 /**
22 * This is the standard interface for custom validation of an HTTP
23 * Response in Latka. All custom validators need to implement
24 * a Validator class and a ValidationHandler class.
25 *
26 * @see org.apache.commons.latka.http.Response
27 * @see org.apache.commons.latka.xml.ValidationHandler
28 *
29 * @author Doug Sale
30 * @author dIon Gillard
31 * @version $Revision: 155424 $
32 */
33 public interface Validator {
34
35 /**
36 * Run custom validation. Latka will
37 * provide the HTTP response to this method. The implementer
38 * should throw a ValidationException if the Response fails
39 * to meet the validation criteria.
40 *
41 * @param response the HTTP response
42 * @throws ValidationException if the Response fails to be valid
43 */
44 void validate(Response response) throws ValidationException;
45 }