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                                                    <td class="text-paragraph-pattern-container mobile-resize-text " style="padding: 0; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0 0 10px"> <span class="diffcontext">What I would like to do is define a class with constraints which are all enforced by default, but some select constraints can be relaxed in certain circumstances. This seemed like a perfect application of groups.<br><br>So I define the following for example:<br><br>{{public interface Relaxed {};<br>public interface Complete {};<br><br>@GroupSequence({Complete.class, A.class})<br>class A {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;@NotNull<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public String a1;<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;@NotNull(groups=Complete.class)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public String a2;<br>}<br>}}<br>My understanding was that default validation should cause both constraints to be enforced. However with this set up the constraint on a1 is never enforced. If I remove the groups=Complete.class setting from the constraint on a2 then the constraint on a1 is enforced. Why does a2's constraint's groups affect evaluation of constraints on a1?<br><br>Even assuming the above behavior is incorrect, then I don't think there's any way to actually achieve what I want since there doesn't seem to be any way to invoke validation such that only the constraint on a1 is enforced. I thought I'd be able to invoke validate as:<br><br>{</span> <span class="diffremovedchars" style="background-color: #ffe7e7; text-decoration:line-through;">{</span> <span class="diffaddedchars" style="background-color:#ddfade;">quote}</span> <span class="diffcontext">A a = new A();<br>a.a1 = "not null";<br>a.a2 = null;<br>violations = validator.validate(a, Relaxed.class, A.class};<br></span> <span class="diffaddedchars" style="background-color:#ddfade;">{quote</span> <span class="diffcontext">}</span> <span class="diffremovedchars" style="background-color: #ffe7e7; text-decoration:line-through;">}</span> <span class="diffcontext"><br></span> <span class="diffaddedchars" style="background-color:#ddfade;"><br></span> <span class="diffcontext">kind of like an inline GroupSequence but this throws an exception saying groups can only be interfaces.<br><br>I want the default to be such that all constraints are enforced so that consumers of this class only relax the constraints when they know they need to.<br><br>So questions are why<br><br>1. Why doesn't the @NotNull constraint on a1 ever get enforced?<br>2. Is there a way to have only constraints with empty group definition enforced?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Tim<br></span> </td> 
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