[bv-dev] Is it allowed to validate complete paths using Validator#validateProperty()

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Hi,

It was meant to be supported in a future version and to let implementors experiment with such a support first.
If we officially support it we need to:

- standardize the String representation of a Path, which is something we shied away from in 1.0
- offer an alternative methods accepting Path ; we would also need to offer a PathBuilder of sort

If people are interested in contributing, please open a BVAL issue number and start forking. 

On 1 juin 2012, at 19:03, Gunnar Morling wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just stumbled upon a question on SO [1], which basically is about
> whether it's allowed to pass a complete property path (e.g.
> "foos[1].bar") to Validator#validateProperty(), or whether only single
> properties (e.g. "foos") can be validated using that method.
> 
> Based on a quick look into the API doc and the spec, I'd say only
> single properties are supported here right now (the doc of the
> parameter "propertyName" describes it as "property to validate"), but
> I'm not really sure. WDYT?
> 
> If this is not supported as of BV 1.0, do you think it should be in 1.1?
> 
> --Gunnar
> 
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10835595/hibernate-validator-calling-validatepropertyobject-list0-field1-groups-o
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