project35.soa.validation
Class DateTimeValidator

java.lang.Object
  project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService
      project35.soa.validation.DateTimeValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, ServiceClass, EditFieldValidationService, FieldValidationService

public class DateTimeValidator
extends AbstractEditFieldValidationService

This validator checks if a String value is formatted according to the XML Schema dateTime format. This is done via a SimpleDateFormat object with the pattern "yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss". See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime for more information.

Copyright (c) 2008 Kevin Garwood for Project35. The original code was developed by Kai Runte for the University of Manchester. Revisions have been made for Project35, a project that is independent of that institution. This code is licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. The code attribution for the original code is included here:

Copyright (c) Kai Runte and University of Manchester 2007. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. For more information on the terms and conditions, please see the file "LICENSE" that is included in this distribution.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Kai Runte

See Also:

SimpleDateFormat, Serialized Form

Field Summary

static java.text.SimpleDateFormat

xmlDateTimeFormat The formatter that converts a Date object from and to the XML date type "dateTime".

Fields inherited from class project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService

collator

Constructor Summary

DateTimeValidator()

Method Summary

java.util.ArrayList

validate(Project35FormContext project35FormContext, java.lang.String value) checks that a field value matches a date-time format

Methods inherited from class project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService

getFieldName, getInitialisationParameters, initialiseService, isEmpty, isFieldRequired, setFieldName, setRequiredField, validateRequiredField

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

xmlDateTimeFormat

public static final java.text.SimpleDateFormat xmlDateTimeFormat

The formatter that converts a Date object from and to the XML date type "dateTime".

Constructor Detail

DateTimeValidator

public DateTimeValidator()

Method Detail

validate

public java.util.ArrayList validate(Project35FormContext project35FormContext,
                                    java.lang.String value)

checks that a field value matches a date-time format

Specified by:

validate in interface EditFieldValidationService

Specified by:

validate in class AbstractEditFieldValidationService

Parameters:

value -

Returns:

collection of alerts that represent errors found from validation