edu.stanford.smi.protege.util
Interface Validatable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractValidatableComponent, ButtonConfigurationPanel, ConfigureProjectPanel, ConfigureProtegePropertiesPanel, DatabaseKnowledgeBaseSourcesEditor, FileSourcesPanel, FileSourcesPanel, FormWidgetConfigurationLayoutTab, FormWidgetConfigurationPanel, FormWidgetConfigurationWidgetsTab, GeneralPreferencesPanel, GeneralWidgetConfigurationPanel, KAToolTabConfigurationPanel, KnowledgeBaseSourcesEditor, PreferencesPanel, ReadOnlyWidgetConfigurationPanel, RegisterUserServerPanel, SelectClsesPanel, ServerPanel, ValidatableTabComponent, WidgetConfigurationPanel

public interface Validatable

An interface that allows the implementer to veto a change or to record whatever is necessary when a save succeeds.

Author:

Ray Fergerson

Method Summary

void	saveContents() Save the contents of the current fields of this component to the underlying data structure.
boolean	validateContents() Check whether the current values of the fields in this component are valid.

Method Detail

saveContents

void saveContents()

Save the contents of the current fields of this component to the underlying data structure. This method is called only after validateContents() has returned true for this object and, possibly, for other objects.

validateContents

boolean validateContents()

Check whether the current values of the fields in this component are valid. If they are, return true. If not, prompt the user with a dialog explaining the problem and return false.