de.unirostock.sems.bives.algorithm

Class ModelValidator

java.lang.Object

de.unirostock.sems.bives.algorithm.ModelValidator

public abstract class ModelValidator
extends Object

The abstract class ModelValidator will serve as parent for ML validators. This might also be a good way to parse documents.

Author:

Martin Scharm

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected Exception	error The error.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ModelValidator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract ModelDocument	getDocument() Gets the parsed document if it was valid, of null otherwise.
Exception	getError() Gets the error the was thrown in case of an invalid document.
abstract boolean	validate(File d) Validate a document represented as a file.
abstract boolean	validate(String d) Validate a document represented as a string.
abstract boolean	validate(de.unirostock.sems.xmlutils.ds.TreeDocument d) Validate a document.
boolean	validate(URL url) Validate a document downladable from a web server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

error

protected Exception error

The error.

Constructor Detail

ModelValidator

public ModelValidator()

Method Detail

validate

public abstract boolean validate(de.unirostock.sems.xmlutils.ds.TreeDocument d)

Validate a document.

Parameters:

d - the document

Returns:

true, if document is a valid model

validate

public abstract boolean validate(File d)

Validate a document represented as a file.

Parameters:

d - the file storing a document

Returns:

true, if submitted string is a valid model

validate

public abstract boolean validate(String d)

Validate a document represented as a string.

Parameters:

d - the textual representation of a document

Returns:

true, if submitted string is a valid model

getDocument

public abstract ModelDocument getDocument()

Gets the parsed document if it was valid, of null otherwise. Since we need to create a document anyways, here you can get it for free ;-)

Returns:

the document

getError

public Exception getError()

Gets the error the was thrown in case of an invalid document.

Returns:

the error

validate

public boolean validate(URL url)

Validate a document downladable from a web server.

Parameters:

url - the URL to the webserver

Returns:

true, if submitted string is a valid model