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/*
* Jakarta Bean Validation API
*
* License: Apache License, Version 2.0
* See the license.txt file in the root directory or .
*/
package javax.validation.metadata;
import javax.validation.groups.ConvertGroup;
/**
* A group conversion rule to be applied during cascaded validation. Two group
* conversion descriptors are considered equal if they have the same
* {@code from} and {@code to} group respectively.
*
* @author Gunnar Morling
* @see ConvertGroup
* @since 1.1
*/
public interface GroupConversionDescriptor {
/**
* Returns the source group of this conversion rule.
*
* @return the source group of this conversion rule
*/
Class getFrom();
/**
* Returns the target group of this conversion rule.
*
* @return the target group of this conversion rule
*/
Class getTo();
}