Package com.atlassian.crowd.validator

Interface EmailAddressValidator

All Known Implementing Classes:

CloudCompatibleEmailValidator

public interface EmailAddressValidator

Validates email address(es).

Since:

4.4.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
long	findDuplicates(List<String> emailAddresses)	Finds duplicate in a given list of email addresses.
boolean	isValidSyntax(String emailAddress)	Validates whether email address has valid syntax.
long	validateSyntax(List<String> emailAddresses)	Validates syntax of provided email addresses.

Method Details

isValidSyntax

boolean isValidSyntax(String emailAddress)

Validates whether email address has valid syntax.

Parameters:

emailAddress - email address to validate

Returns:

true if email address has valid syntax, false otherwise

validateSyntax

long validateSyntax(List<String> emailAddresses)

Validates syntax of provided email addresses.

Note about duplicates: if provided email addresses contain duplicates which have invalid syntax, they are counted as separate email addresses.

For example, for given list of email addresses: - validemail@validemail.com - invalidDuplicatedEmail@ - invalidEmail - invalidDuplicatedEmail@ the method will return 3.

Parameters:

emailAddresses - list of email addresses

Returns:

number of invalid email addresses

findDuplicates

long findDuplicates(List<String> emailAddresses)

Finds duplicate in a given list of email addresses.

For example, for given list of email addresses: - validemail@validemail.com - validduplicatedemail@validduplicatedemail - validduplicatedemail@validduplicatedemail - invalid - invalidduplicated@ - invalidduplicated@ the method will return 4.

Parameters:

emailAddresses - list of email addresses

Returns:

number of duplicated email addresses