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Central module for Tapestry, containing interfaces to the Java Servlet API and all core services and components.

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//
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package org.apache.tapestry5;

/**
 * Allows control over validation concerns of a Form component.
 */
public interface FormValidationControl
{
    /**
     * A convienience for invoking {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker#recordError(String)}.
     */
    void recordError(String errorMessage);

    /**
     * A convienience for invoking {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker#recordError(Field, String)}.
     */
    void recordError(Field field, String errorMessage);

    /**
     * Returns true if the form's {@link ValidationTracker} contains any {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker#getHasErrors()
     * errors}.
     */
    boolean getHasErrors();

    /**
     * Returns true if the form's {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker} does not contain any {@link
     * org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker#getHasErrors() errors}.
     */
    boolean isValid();

    /**
     * Invokes {@link org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker#clear()}.
     */
    void clearErrors();
}