[bv-dev] Value extraction open issue #2: per constraint ConstraintsApplyTo?

[Emmanuel Bernard]

I looked at that, and I’m not sure you are guaranteed to get an other.
Plus you have this problem

@Min
@Min.List({@Min, @Min})
@Min
BooYahh foo;

> On 13 Jan 2017, at 15:22, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> 
> As a variation of Matt's idea, an optional index() parameter could be added:
> 
>    @Size(1)
>    @Size(3)
>    @ApplyConstraintTo(constraint=Size.class, index=1, target=WRAPPED_VALUE)
>    List<String> nicknames;
> 
> It could be omitted (via a default value of -1 or similar) if there is
> only one constraint of the type in question:
> 
>    @NotNull
>    @Email
>    @ApplyConstraintTo(constraint=NotNull.class, target=ANNOTATED_ELEMENT)
>    Optional<String> email;
> 
> Does the trick, though it's still a tad verbose.
> 
> 
> 2017-01-13 14:58 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>> 
>> On 13 Jan 2017, at 13:29, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, validationAppliesTo() is already taken:
>>> 
>>> http://beanvalidation.org/latest-draft/spec/#constraintsdefinitionimplementation-constraintdefinition-validationappliesto
>>> 
>>> It's used to distinguish between return value and cross-parameter
>>> constraints.
>>> 
>>> Any other name I can think of right now would make up for much
>>> confusion with that option.
>> 
>> 
>> Too good to be true :).
>> 
>> That being said, I'm wondering if we could reuse it and just add 2 other
>> values to ConstraintTarget. All in all, it's the same concept. The default
>> being IMPLICIT is not too bad either.
>> 
>> 
>> Right I think it’s worth exploring.
>> I still like my group repurposing trick though even if it offenses the clean
>> camp :)
>> 
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