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ConstraintValidatorFactory.java
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ConstraintValidatorFactory.java
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/*
* JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source
* Copyright 2009, Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates, and individual contributors
* by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a
* full listing of individual contributors.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package javax.validation;
/**
* Instantiate a {@code ConstraintValidator} instance based off its class.
* The {@code ConstraintValidatorFactory} is <b>not</b> responsible
* for calling {@link ConstraintValidator#initialize(java.lang.annotation.Annotation)}.
*
* @author Dhanji R. Prasanna
* @author Emmanuel Bernard
* @author Hardy Ferentschik
*/
public interface ConstraintValidatorFactory {
/**
* @param key The class of the constraint validator to instantiate.
*
* @return A new constraint validator instance of the specified class.
*/
<T extends ConstraintValidator<?, ?>> T getInstance(Class<T> key);
/**
* Signal ConstraintValidatorFactory that the instance is no longer
* being used by the Bean Validation provider
*
* @param instance validator being released
*
* @since 1.1
*/
void releaseInstance(ConstraintValidator<?, ?> instance);
}