On 13 Jan 2017, at 13:29, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar@hibernate.org> wrote:
Unfortunately, validationAppliesTo() is already taken:
http://beanvalidation.org/latest-draft/spec/#constraintsdefinitionimplementation-constraintdefinition-validationappliesto

It's used to distinguish between return value and cross-parameter constraints.

Any other name I can think of right now would make up for much
confusion with that option.

Too good to be true :).

That being said, I'm wondering if we could reuse it and just add 2 other values to ConstraintTarget. All in all, it's the same concept. The default being IMPLICIT is not too bad either.

Right I think it’s worth exploring.
I still like my group repurposing trick though even if it offenses the clean camp :)