org.apache.commons.latka.jelly.validators
Class HttpValidatorTagSupport

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport
      org.apache.commons.latka.jelly.validators.HttpValidatorTagSupport

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.apache.commons.jelly.Tag

Direct Known Subclasses:

ByteLengthTag, CookieTag, GoldenFileTag, MaxRequestTimeTag, RegexpTag, ResponseHeaderTag, StatusCodeTag, StatusTextTag, XPathTag

public abstract class HttpValidatorTagSupport

extends org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport

A base class for validation tags

Version:

$Id: HttpValidatorTagSupport.java 155424 2005-02-26 13:09:29Z dirkv $

Author:

Morgan Delagrange, dIon Gillard

Field Summary

protected java.lang.String	_label label for the test
protected LatkaEventInfo	_listener the listener handling request success/failure etc
protected static org.apache.log4j.Category	_log
protected Response	_response the response being validated

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport

body, context, hasTrimmed, parent, shouldTrim

Constructor Summary

HttpValidatorTagSupport()

Method Summary

void	doTag(org.apache.commons.jelly.XMLOutput xmlOutput) Provides a default implementation for simple validation tags.
Response	getResponse() the response being validated
abstract Validator	getValidator()
void	init() Called by the ValidationFactory.
void	setLabel(java.lang.String label)
boolean	validate(Validator validator) validate the response using the validator provided.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport

findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, getBody, getBodyText, getBodyText, getContext, getParent, invokeBody, isEscapeText, isTrim, setBody, setContext, setEscapeText, setParent, setTrim, trimBody

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

_response

protected Response _response

the response being validated

_listener

protected LatkaEventInfo _listener

the listener handling request success/failure etc

_label

protected java.lang.String _label

label for the test

_log

protected static final org.apache.log4j.Category _log

Constructor Detail

HttpValidatorTagSupport

public HttpValidatorTagSupport()

Method Detail

getValidator

public abstract Validator getValidator()

doTag

public void doTag(org.apache.commons.jelly.XMLOutput xmlOutput)
           throws org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException

Provides a default implementation for simple validation tags. Will execute the validator produced by getValidator(). Override if necessary.

Parameters:

xmlOutput - a place to write output

Throws:

org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException - if the tag body could not be invoked

init

public void init()

Called by the ValidationFactory.

setLabel

public void setLabel(java.lang.String label)

getResponse

public Response getResponse()

the response being validated

Returns:

the response being validated

validate

public boolean validate(Validator validator)

validate the response using the validator provided. This method will notify the listener in the event of a failure. Will return false and not execute the validation if the request is already invalid.

Parameters:

validator - the object that performs validation

Returns:

whether or not the request passed validation