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1   /*
2    *  jDTAUS Banking SPI
3    *  Copyright (C) 2005 Christian Schulte
4    *  <cs@schulte.it>
5    *
6    *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7    *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
8    *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9    *  version 2.1 of the License, or any later version.
10   *
11   *  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12   *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13   *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
14   *  Lesser General Public License for more details.
15   *
16   *  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
17   *  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
18   *  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
19   *
20   */
21  package org.jdtaus.banking.dtaus.spi;
22  
23  import java.io.IOException;
24  import org.jdtaus.banking.dtaus.LogicalFile;
25  import org.jdtaus.banking.dtaus.Transaction;
26  
27  /**
28   * Validates {@code Transaction} instances.
29   * <p>jDTAUS Banking SPI {@code TransactionValidator} specification to be used by implementations to validate
30   * {@code Transaction} instances to hold valid values.</p>
31   *
32   * @author <a href="mailto:cs@schulte.it">Christian Schulte</a>
33   * @version $JDTAUS: TransactionValidator.java 8661 2012-09-27 11:29:58Z schulte $
34   */
35  public interface TransactionValidator
36  {
37  
38      /**
39       * Checks a given {@code Transaction} instance to hold valid values for use with a given {@code LogicalFile}.
40       *
41       * @param lFile The logical file holding {@code transaction}.
42       * @param transaction The instance to check.
43       * @param result The validation result to be used or {@code null}.
44       *
45       * @return The validation result passed in as {@code result} (maybe {@code null} if the implementation did not
46       * detect illegal values).
47       *
48       * @throws NullPointerException if either {@code lFile} or {@code transaction} is {@code null}.
49       * @throws IOException if reading fails.
50       */
51      IllegalTransactionException assertValidTransaction( LogicalFile lFile, Transaction transaction,
52                                                          IllegalTransactionException result ) throws IOException;
53  
54  }