Validation
The primary reasons to use validation in the model are to check the correctness of any one attribute/property, any whole object, or any composition of objects. We look at three levels of validation in the model. Although there are lots of ways to perform validation, including specialized frameworks/libraries, those are not examined here. Instead, general-purpose approaches are presented, but these can lead to more elaborate approaches.
Validation accomplishes different things. Just because all of the attributes/properties of a domain object are individually valid, that does not mean that the object as a whole is valid. Maybe the combination of two correct attributes invalidates the whole object. Just because a single object as a whole ...
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