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Validation Abstraction (Erl)


Home > Service Contract Design Patterns > Validation Abstraction
How can service contracts be designed to more easily adapt
to validation logic changes? 		 

Problem

Service contracts that contain detailed validation constraints become more easily invalidated when the rules behind those constraints change.

Solution

Granular validation logic and rules can be abstracted away from the service contract, thereby decreasing constraint granularity and increasing the contract's potential longevity.

Application

Abstracted validation logic and rules need to be moved to the underlying service logic, a different service, a service agent, or elsewhere.
Impacts

This pattern can somewhat decentralize validation logic and can also complicate schema standardization.

Principles

Standardized Service Contract, Service Loose Coupling, Service Abstraction
Architecture

Service




By reducing the overall quantity of constraints and especially filtering out those more prone to change, the longevity of a service contract can be extended.


Related Patterns in This Catalog

Compatible Change (Orchard, Riley), Concurrent Contracts (Erl), Entity Abstraction (Erl), Partial Validation (Orchard, Riley), Policy Centralization (Erl), Rules Centralization (Erl), Schema Centralization (Erl), Service Agent (Erl), Service Refactoring (Erl)


Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals

Increased Federation, Reduced IT Burden

SOA Design Patterns This page contains excerpts from:

SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

Foreword by Grady Booch

With contributions from David Chappell, Jason Hogg, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little, David Orchard, Satadru Roy,
Thomas Rischbeck, Arnaud Simon, Clemens Utschig, Dennis Wisnosky, and others.

(ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages)

For more information about this book, visit www.soabooks.com.
Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA This pattern is also discussed in the following title:

Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA
by Thomas Erl, Anish Karmarkar, Priscilla Walmsley, Hugo Haas, Umit Yalcinalp, Canyang Kevin Liu,
David Orchard, Andre Tost, James Pasley

Foreword by David Chappell

(ISBN: 013613517X, Hardcover, 826 pages)

For more information about this book, visit www.soabooks.com.
The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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