Re: [bv-dev] Legal to validate constraints more than once?

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org&gt;wrote: > On 21 Jan 2013, at 3:36 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > > > I'm wondering whether it's legal that one constraint gets validated > more than once during one validation operation. The spec seems a bit > contradictory in this regard. > > > > In section 4.6 "Validation routine" [1] it says: > > > > "[...] this implies that a given validation constraint will not be > processed more than once per validation." > > > > Section 4.6.1 "Object graph validation" says though: > > > > "[...] object graph navigation can lead to multiple validations of the > same constraint and the same object instance but the set of constraint > validation is deterministic and the algorithm prevents infinite loops." > > > > What is right here? Or is this to say that *only* during graph > validation a constraint may be validated multiple times but not e.g. during > validation of multiple groups, all of which a constraint is part of? > > If you are just validating a single bean every constraint can only be > validated once. However, when you are dealing with object graphs a > constraint can be validated once per path on which you reach it. > So both sentences make sense in their context, but taken together there > seems to be a contradiction. Maybe the first statement could just be > removed? > > My read of these sections yields an understanding that, during any validation call, the same validated object/constraint pair must be evaluated only once. I seem to be in agreement with Hardy here.

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