Constraint (Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java 15.0 API)

Deprecated.
Use Preconditions for basic checks. In place of constrained collections, we encourage you to check your preconditions explicitly instead of leaving that work to the collection implementation. For the specific case of rejecting null, consider the immutable collections. This interface is scheduled for removal in Guava 16.0.
```
@Beta
@Deprecated
@GwtCompatible
public interface Constraint<E>
```
A constraint that an element must satisfy in order to be added to a collection. For example, Constraints.notNull(), which prevents a collection from including any null elements, could be implemented like this:
```
   public Object checkElement(Object element) {
     if (element == null) {
       throw new NullPointerException();
     }
     return element;
   }
```
In order to be effective, constraints should be deterministic; that is, they should not depend on state that can change (such as external state, random variables, and time) and should only depend on the value of the passed-in element. A non-deterministic constraint cannot reliably enforce that all the collection's elements meet the constraint, since the constraint is only enforced when elements are added.
Since:

3.0

Author:

Mike Bostock

See Also:
Constraints, MapConstraint

Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`E`	`checkElement(E element)` Deprecated. Throws a suitable `RuntimeException` if the specified element is illegal.
`String`	`toString()` Deprecated. Returns a brief human readable description of this constraint, such as "Not null" or "Positive number".

Interface Constraint<E>