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/*
* Hibernate Validator, declare and validate application constraints
*
* License: Apache License, Version 2.0
* See the license.txt file in the root directory or .
*/
package org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.facets;
/**
* Provides a unified view on validatable elements of all kinds, be it Java
* beans, the arguments passed to a method or the value returned from a method.
* Allows a unified handling of these elements in the validation routine.
*
* @author Gunnar Morling
*/
public interface Validatable {
/**
* Returns the cascaded elements of this validatable, e.g. the properties of
* a bean or the parameters of a method annotated with {@code @Valid}.
*
* @return The cascaded elements of this validatable.
*/
Iterable getCascadables();
/**
* Returns {@code true} if this validatable has at least one cascadable element, {@code false} otherwise.
*/
boolean hasCascadables();
}