Re: [bv-dev] Method validation - cont'd
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Emmanuel Bernard
<emmanuel(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
On 14 mai 2012, at 17:18, Matt Benson wrote:
>>>
>>> * Should method validation methods be defined on j.v.Validator or a
>>> dedicated new interface?
>>
>> Should be on javax.validation.Validator
>
> Destroying backward compatibilty? Not such a big deal for full-blown
> implementations, perhaps, but what about interoperability libraries
> that may, for whatever reason, implement javax.validation.Validator?
> Shouldn't a user be able to upgrade to a Bean Validation 1.1
> implementation and still use libraries built against Bean Validation
> 1.0?
No I don't think that's a realistic goal. It would force us to use some untyped
unwrap() style method to
add features to Bean Validation.
But isn't that the reason #unwrap() is part of the Validator and
ValidatorFactory interfaces?
Matt
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