Package org.opengis.test.metadata

Class CitationValidator

Object

Validator

MetadataValidator

CitationValidator

public class CitationValidator
extends MetadataValidator

Validates Citation and related objects from the org.opengis.metadata.citation package.

This class is provided for users wanting to override the validation methods. When the default behavior is sufficient, the Validators static methods provide a more convenient way to validate various kinds of objects.

Since:

2.2

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class Validator

container, DEFAULT_TOLERANCE, enforceForbiddenAttributes, logger, requireMandatoryAttributes

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CitationValidator(ValidatorContainer container)	Creates a new validator instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	validate(Address object)	Validates the given address.
void	validate(Citation object)	Validates the given citation.
void	validate(CitationDate... dates)	Validates citation dates.
void	validate(Contact object)	Validates the given contact information.
void	validate(OnlineResource object)	Validates the given online resource.
void	validate(Party object)	Validates the given party.
void	validate(Responsibility object)	Validates the given responsible party.
void	validate(Telephone object)	Validates the given telephone information.

Methods inherited from class Validator

conditional, forbidden, mandatory, validate

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Constructor Detail

CitationValidator

public CitationValidator(ValidatorContainer container)

Creates a new validator instance.

Parameters:

container - the set of validators to use for validating other kinds of objects (see field javadoc).

Method Detail

validate

public void validate(Citation object)

Validates the given citation.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

validate

public void validate(CitationDate... dates)

Validates citation dates. If more than one dates is given, then this method will check for the following constraints:

• DateType.CREATION shall be before or equals to all other type of dates, ignoring user-defined codes.
• DateType.LAST_UPDATE shall be before or equals to DateType.NEXT_UPDATE.
• DateType.VALIDITY_BEGINS shall be before or equals to DateType.VALIDITY_EXPIRES.

Those constraints are verified in their iteration order. It is possible for example to have more than one (validity begins, validity expires) pair.

Parameters:

dates - the citation dates to validate.

Since:

3.1

validate

public void validate(Responsibility object)

Validates the given responsible party.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

Since:

3.1

validate

public void validate(Party object)

Validates the given party.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

Since:

3.1

validate

public void validate(Contact object)

Validates the given contact information.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

Since:

3.1

validate

public void validate(Telephone object)

Validates the given telephone information.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

Since:

3.1

validate

public void validate(Address object)

Validates the given address.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

Since:

3.1

validate

public void validate(OnlineResource object)

Validates the given online resource.

Parameters:

object - the object to validate, or null.

Since:

3.1