[hibernate-dev] [BV] Though about PatternValidator

[Alaa Mohsen]

It was just a thought so that the developer doesn't have to handle such
cases himself.
regards
Alaa Nassef

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <
hibernate at ferentschik.de> wrote:

> If you want to allow the empty string you can start your regular expression
> with the 'empty' or operator '|', eg "|^.*foo.*$".
> Now the string can be empty or anything with foo in it.
>
> --Hardy
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:56 +0200, Alaa Mohsen <alaa.mohsen at egyptdc.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hello All,
>> I just realized that PatternValidator checks if the String passed to it
>> is null or not before checking it's validity, but it doesn't check if the
>> String is empty. What if someone wants to put a regular expression
>> constraint on a non mandatory field, and the framework he uses sets this
>> empty field to an empty string? What do you think?
>>
>
>
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