DataType (Payara Project 6.2023.2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

NonNegativeInteger, Port, PositiveInteger, PrimitiveDataType
```
@Contract
public interface DataType
```
Denotes the type of the data a particular config element (attribute, element) should have. This interface should be implemented whenever a need arises to check if an abstract data type can be represented as a given String . The implementations of a DataType are mapped by their names elsewhere. Implementations should provide functional implementation of the #validate method and must have a public parameterless constructor (except possibly for primitives).

Since:

hk2 0.3.10

Author:

केदार (km@dev.java.net)

See Also:

PrimitiveDataType, WriteableView

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`validate(String value)`	Checks if given value can be had by the abstract data type represented by this implementation.

- Method Detail
  - validate
```
void validate(String value)
       throws ValidationException
```
    Checks if given value can be had by the abstract data type represented by this implementation.
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - String representing the value for this DataType
    
    Throws:
    
    ValidationException - if given String does not represent this data type.