Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: A Class that implements utility methods like:

 *             1/ Reding all doctypes from db connection

 *             2/ Reading DTD or Schema file from Metacat catalog system

 *             3/ Reading Lore type Data Guide from db connection

 *  Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Jivka Bojilova

 * 

 *   '$Author: cjones $'

 *     '$Date: 2011-06-07 09:53:46 -0700 (Tue, 07 Jun 2011) $'

 * '$Revision: 6124 $'

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

 * (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.admin;

import java.util.Vector;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**

 * A suite of utility classes for querying DB

 * 

 */

public abstract class MetacatAdmin {

	/**

	 * Require subclasses to implement a properties validator.

	 * 

	 * @return a vector holding error message for any fields that fail

	 *         validation.

	 */

	protected abstract Vector<String> validateOptions(HttpServletRequest request);

}