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This project was born out of a need to validate all POJOs (Plain Old Java Object) are behaving correctly. This project has two main aspects to it: * Make Testing as easy as possible. * Simplifying identity management (hashCode / equals) using annotation.

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Osman Shoukry
 *
 *    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *    it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 *    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License or any
 *    later version.
 *
 *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *    GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 *    along with this program.  If not, see .
 */

package com.openpojo.validation.rule;

import com.openpojo.reflection.PojoClass;

/**
 * This interface is to be implemented by all Rule.
 * Rules should check for structural concerns on a Pojo (i.e. public fields, nested classes, etc).
 *
 * @author oshoukry
 */
public interface Rule {
    /**
     * @param pojoClass
     *            The PojoClass to evaluate that rule on.
     */
    public void evaluate(PojoClass pojoClass);
}