Package org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.common

Interface CanonicalValueValidator<T extends CanonicalValue<T>,V extends T>

Type Parameters:

T - canonical value type

V - validated canonical value type

All Superinterfaces:

Immutable, MutationBehaviour<Immutable>

All Known Subinterfaces:

CanonicalValueSupport<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCanonicalValueSupport, AbstractCanonicalValueValidator, Decimal64.Support, Uint16.Support, Uint32.Support, Uint64.Support, Uint8.Support

@Beta
@NonNullByDefault
public interface CanonicalValueValidator<T extends CanonicalValue<T>,V extends T>
extends Immutable

CanonicalValue validator interface. Implementations of this interface can perform further validation of representation state such that it conforms to a YANG type derived from a type with a CanonicalValue representation.

Note: this interface should not be directly implemented. Use AbstractCanonicalValueValidator instead.

Author:

Robert Varga

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Class<T>	getRepresentationClass()	Returns the instantiated representation class.
Class<V>	getValidatedRepresentationClass()	Return the class which captures the fact it was validated by this validator.
default Variant<T,CanonicalValueViolation>	validateRepresentation(T value)	Validate a CanonicalValue representation.
Variant<T,CanonicalValueViolation>	validateRepresentation(T value, String canonicalString)	Validate a CanonicalValue representation.

Method Detail

getRepresentationClass

Class<T> getRepresentationClass()

Returns the instantiated representation class. The representation class is a CanonicalValue which understands the semantics of modeled data and has some internal representation of it. All CanonicalValues which share the same representation class are considered equal if their internal state would result in the same canonical string representation as defined by the YANG data model.

Returns:

Representation CanonicalValue class.

getValidatedRepresentationClass

Class<V> getValidatedRepresentationClass()

Return the class which captures the fact it was validated by this validator.

Returns:

Validated capture of the representation class.

validateRepresentation

default Variant<T,CanonicalValueViolation> validateRepresentation(T value)

Validate a CanonicalValue representation. Implementations should override this method if they can provide a validation algorithm which does not rely on canonical strings but works on representation state only.

Parameters:

value - Representation value

Returns:

Validated representation or a CanonicalValueViolation

Throws:

NullPointerException - if value is null

validateRepresentation

Variant<T,CanonicalValueViolation> validateRepresentation(T value,
                                                                String canonicalString)

Validate a CanonicalValue representation. Implementations can chose whether they operate on representation state or canonical string -- both are considered equivalent. Users should call this method if they have a representation readily available.

Parameters:

value - Representation value

canonicalString - Canonical string matching the representation value

Returns:

Validated representation or a CanonicalValueViolation

Throws:

NullPointerException - if value or canonicalString is null.