1 /*
2 * This file is part of *** M y C o R e ***
3 * See http://www.mycore.de/ for details.
4 *
5 * MyCoRe is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
8 * (at your option) any later version.
9 *
10 * MyCoRe is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 * GNU General Public License for more details.
14 *
15 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 * along with MyCoRe. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
17 */
18
19 package org.mycore.datamodel.metadata.validator;
20
21 import org.jdom2.Element;
22
23 /**
24 * Validates the output of the Editor framework.
25 * Implementors have to be thread safe.
26 * @author Thomas Scheffler (yagee)
27 * @version $Revision: 1 $ $Date: 08.05.2009 11:51:35 $
28 */
29 public interface MCREditorMetadataValidator {
30
31 /**
32 * Gives hints to the editor form developer.
33 *
34 * If an element is not valid it is removed from the JDOM document.
35 * The returned String then can give a hint to the form developer, why it is removed.
36 * This method may throw a {@link RuntimeException} in which case the whole validation process will fail.
37 * @return
38 * null, everything is OK
39 * validation error message
40 */
41 String checkDataSubTag(Element datasubtag);
42 }