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JSR 349's RI, Hibernate Validator version ${hibernate-validator.version} and its dependencies repackaged as OSGi bundle
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package org.hibernate.validator.cfg;
import org.hibernate.validator.cfg.context.TypeConstraintMappingContext;
/**
* Represents a constraint mapping configured via the programmatic API.
*
* @author Hardy Ferentschik
* @author Gunnar Morling
* @author Kevin Pollet (C) 2011 SERLI
*/
public interface ConstraintMapping {
/**
* Starts defining constraints on the specified bean class. Each bean class may only be configured once within all
* constraint mappings used for configuring one validator factory.
*
* @param The type to be configured.
* @param beanClass The bean class on which to define constraints. All constraints defined after calling this method
* are added to the bean of the type {@code beanClass} until the next call of {@code type}.
*
* @return Instance allowing for defining constraints on the specified class.
*/
TypeConstraintMappingContext type(Class beanClass);
}