com.sun.msv.verifier.IVerifier Maven / Gradle / Ivy
/*
* @(#)$Id: IVerifier.java,v 1.9 2003/06/09 20:37:42 kk122374 Exp $
*
* Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This software is the proprietary information of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
* Use is subject to license terms.
*
*/
package com.sun.msv.verifier;
import org.iso_relax.verifier.VerifierHandler;
import org.relaxng.datatype.Datatype;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
/**
* Interface of verifier.
*
* @author Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI
*/
public interface IVerifier extends VerifierHandler {
/**
* checks if the document was valid.
* This method may not be called before verification was completed.
*/
boolean isValid();
/**
* returns current element type.
*
* Actual java type depends on the implementation.
* This method works correctly only when called immediately
* after handling startElement event.
*
* @return null
* this method returns null when it doesn't support
* type-assignment feature, or type-assignment is impossible
* for the current element (for example due to the ambiguous grammar).
*/
Object getCurrentElementType();
/**
* gets DataType that validated the last characters.
*
*
* This method works correctly only when called immediately
* after startElement and endElement method. When called, this method
* returns DataType object that validated the last character literals.
*
*
* For RELAX NG grammar, this method can return an array of length 2 or more.
* This happens when the last character matches <list> pattern.
* In that case, each type corresponds to each token (where tokens are the
* white-space separation of the last characters).
*
*
* For any other grammar, this method always returns an array of length 1
* (or null, if the type assignment failed).
*
*
* So when you are using VerifierFilter, you can call this method only
* in your startElement and endElement method.
*
* @return null
* if type-assignment was not possible.
*/
Datatype[] getLastCharacterType();
/**
* Turns on/off the panic mode.
* Panic mode is on by default. Turning it on is good
* for general use. It prevents false error messages to appear.
*
* However, turning it off is sometimes useful, when
* you are sure that the structure of the document is
* almost valid (e.g., validating a document generated by an
* application or when you are sure about the validity of the
* structure and only interested in validating datatypes,)
*/
void setPanicMode( boolean usePanicMode );
Locator getLocator();
ErrorHandler getErrorHandler();
void setErrorHandler( ErrorHandler handler );
}