Cascadable (Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.0.GA public API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

ContainerElementConstraintMappingContext, ParameterConstraintMappingContext, PropertyConstraintMappingContext, ReturnValueConstraintMappingContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

ContainerElementConstraintMappingContextImpl
```
public interface Cascadable<C extends Cascadable<C>>
```
Facet of a constraint mapping creational context which allows to mark the underlying element as to be validated in a cascaded way.

Author:

Gunnar Morling, Kevin Pollet <kevin.pollet@serli.com> (C) 2011 SERLI

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`GroupConversionTargetContext<C>`	`convertGroup(Class<?> from)`	Adds a group conversion for this cascadable element.
`C`	`valid()`	Marks the current element (property, parameter etc.) as cascadable.

- Method Detail
  - valid
```
C valid()
```
    Marks the current element (property, parameter etc.) as cascadable.
    
    Returns:
    
    The current creational context following the method chaining pattern.
  - convertGroup
```
GroupConversionTargetContext<C> convertGroup(Class<?> from)
```
    Adds a group conversion for this cascadable element. Several conversions may be configured for one element.
    
    Parameters:
    
    from - the source group of the conversion to be configured
    
    Returns:
    
    a creational context allow to set the target group of the conversion