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                                                    <td class="text-paragraph-pattern-container mobile-resize-text " style="padding: 0; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0 0 10px"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0; margin-top: 0">In <a href="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/BVAL-638" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/BVAL-638</a> I had a discussion with Gunnar Morling regarding a requirement to be able to specify a particular group when performing validation that selects contraints that are not explcitly assigned to a group.</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">This is to allow for relaxing constraints is specific circumstances while having default evaluation execute all constraints by default.</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">For example:</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">In the class</p> 
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<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">class </span>A {
    @NotNull
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> a1;

    @NotNull
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> a2;
}

I would like a way to express that by <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">default</span> all constraints should be validated but in particular validation points only a subset of these constraints be validated. I want to be able to <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">do</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span> by adjusting the annotation only on those constraints that are to be relaxed.

As suggested by Gunnar, one approach is to introduce some ALL_UNASSIGNED pre-defined group then have the following, <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">for</span> example, <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">if</span> I want to be able to relax the constraint on a2.

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                                                        </div> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">public interface Complete extends Default {};</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">@GroupSequence(</p> {Complete.class, A.class})<br> public class A {<br> @NotNull<br> public String a1;<br> <br> @NotNull(groups={Complete.class})<br> public String a2;<br> } 
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In <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">case</span>, <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">default</span> validation will enforce the constraints on a1 and a2 but evaluation against ALL_UNASSIGNED would only evaluate the constraint on a1.

It would also be useful to be able to specify specific constraints that are only evaluated in the relaxed <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">case</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">for</span> example:

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                                                        </div><br> public interface Complete extends Default {};<br> public interface Partial extends {};<br> <br> @GroupSequence({Complete.class, A.class} <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">)<br> public class A {<br> @NotNull<br> public String a1;</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0"> @NotNull(groups=</p> {Complete.class})<br> public String a2;<br> <br> @NotNull(groups={Complete.class} <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">)<br> @Null(groups={Partial.class}})<br> public String a3<br> }</p> 
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when validation <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">this</span> as:
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                                                        </div> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0">then the @Null constraint on a3 would be enforced but not otherwise. I think that would just work in the presence of an ALL_UNASSIGNED special validation group.</p> </td> 
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