[bv-dev] Method validation - cont'd

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 14 mai 2012, at 14:53, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:

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>> * Further discuss @MethodValidated annotation with other EGs (e.g. JAX-RS)
> 
> What's about @ValidateContract, @ContractValidated or even just @Constract 
> This get the "design by contract" idea in as well and it avoids the ambiguity when
> it comes to constructors.

Naming wise, that's an interesting approach to use contract in the name.
Another question we had with the JAX-RS team was whether or not such annotation would be mandatory
to validate contracts by default.

In JPA and JSF, validation is on by default and I see no reason why JAX-RS would need to add a @ContractValidated 
annotation to activate method-level validation. Of course the annotation would still be useful to customize
validation and disable it altogether.