com.jivesoftware.profiles.validator
Class DateValidator

java.lang.Object
  com.jivesoftware.profiles.validator.DateValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ProfileFieldValidator, Cacheable, java.io.Serializable

public class DateValidator
extends java.lang.Object
implements ProfileFieldValidator, Cacheable

A validator which validates dates.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

DateValidator()

Method Summary

int	getCachedSize() Returns the approximate size of the Object in bytes.
java.lang.String	getPattern()
void	setPattern(java.lang.String pattern)
java.lang.String	validate(java.lang.String value, User user) Performs field validation on user supplied input.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DateValidator

public DateValidator()

Method Detail

validate

public java.lang.String validate(java.lang.String value,
                                 User user)

Description copied from interface: ProfileFieldValidator

Performs field validation on user supplied input. Returns null if validation succeeds or an error string if validation fails.

Specified by:

validate in interface ProfileFieldValidator

Parameters:

value - the user supplied value. If no value has been provided by the user then the value should be null.

user - the user supplying the value, or null if anonymous.

Returns:

null if validation succeeds or an error string if validation fails.

getPattern

public java.lang.String getPattern()

setPattern

public void setPattern(java.lang.String pattern)

getCachedSize

public int getCachedSize()

Description copied from interface: Cacheable

Returns the approximate size of the Object in bytes. The size should be considered to be a best estimate of how much memory the Object occupies and may be based on empirical trials or dynamic calculations.

Specified by:

getCachedSize in interface Cacheable

Returns:

the size of the Object in bytes.