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

All Known Implementing Classes:

ContainerCascadingMetaData, NonContainerCascadingMetaData, PotentiallyContainerCascadingMetaData
```
public interface CascadingMetaData
```
An aggregated view of the cascading validation metadata. Note that it also includes the cascading validation metadata defined on the root element via the ArrayElement and AnnotatedObject pseudo type parameters.
To reduce the memory footprint, CascadingMetaData comes in 2 variants:
- NonContainerCascadingMetaData dedicated to non containers: it is very lightweight;
- ContainerCascadingMetaData used for containers: it is the full featured version.
Author:

Guillaume Smet

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`CascadingMetaData`	`addRuntimeContainerSupport(ValueExtractorManager valueExtractorManager, Class<?> valueClass)`	Add additional cascading metadata when: the element is marked with `@Valid`, the runtime type of the element is container based (e.g.
`<T extends CascadingMetaData> T`	`as(Class<T> clazz)`
`Class<?>`	`convertGroup(Class<?> originalGroup)`
`Set<GroupConversionDescriptor>`	`getGroupConversionDescriptors()`
`TypeVariable<?>`	`getTypeParameter()`
`boolean`	`isCascading()`
`boolean`	`isContainer()`
`boolean`	`isMarkedForCascadingOnAnnotatedObjectOrContainerElements()`

- Method Detail
  - getTypeParameter
```
TypeVariable<?> getTypeParameter()
```
  - isCascading
```
boolean isCascading()
```
  - isMarkedForCascadingOnAnnotatedObjectOrContainerElements
```
boolean isMarkedForCascadingOnAnnotatedObjectOrContainerElements()
```
  - convertGroup
```
Class<?> convertGroup(Class<?> originalGroup)
```
  - getGroupConversionDescriptors
```
Set<GroupConversionDescriptor> getGroupConversionDescriptors()
```
  - isContainer
```
boolean isContainer()
```
  - as
```
<T extends CascadingMetaData> T as(Class<T> clazz)
```
  - addRuntimeContainerSupport
```
CascadingMetaData addRuntimeContainerSupport(ValueExtractorManager valueExtractorManager,
                                             Class<?> valueClass)
```
    Add additional cascading metadata when:
    
    the element is marked with @Valid,
    
    the runtime type of the element is container based (e.g. collections, maps or arrays),
    
    and there are ValueExtractors present for such container,
    
    and the declared type isn't container based.
    
    An example of this particular situation is: @Valid private Object element = new ArrayList<String>().
    Note that if the declared type is container based, the cascading information is directly included at bootstrap time.