[bv-dev] Making built-in constraints repeatable

[Michael Nascimento]

LGTM (even though too late)

Regards,
Michael

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of the things making life easier in Java 8 is repeatable annotations
> [1], for instance allowing to specify several @Pattern constraints, without
> the explicit usage of @Pattern.List.
>
> The transition is very smooth for BV built-in constraints, essentially we
> just need to mark them with @Repeatable, using the existing inner @List
> annotations as containers. Hence I didn't bother to create a separate
> proposal document but instead Guillaume and me have prepared changes for the
> API and the spec already. You can find the GitHub pull requests at [2] and
> [3], respectively.
>
> Speaking of changes to the API sources, we also increased the Java version
> to 8, bumped the project version to 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT and we've prepared a
> change for BVAL-486 [4] which is about not going through the provider
> resolver if a specific provider type is passed into bootstrapping via
> Validation#byProvider(). This was a tad inconvenient when e.g. explicitly
> bootstrapping the RI under OSGi, where you still had to provide a specific
> provider resolver.
>
> Please let me know if you have any concerns or other remarks on any of these
> by the end of the week. Silence will be taken as expression of agreement :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Gunnar
>
> [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/annotations/repeating.html
> [2] https://github.com/beanvalidation/beanvalidation-api/pull/65
> [3] https://github.com/beanvalidation/beanvalidation-spec/pull/111
> [4] https://github.com/beanvalidation/beanvalidation-api/pull/66
>
>
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