Re: [bv-dev] Bean Validation and JAX-RS: conversion too?

Emmanuel> I have to admit I am not particularly experienced in the Emmanuel> "conversion" / "transformation" field but my intuition follows Emmanuel> what Matt has been describing. i.e. a separate specification Emmanuel> to cover this. Out of curiosity, do you Ed or anyone see Emmanuel> specific adherence between Bean Validation and conversion? I Emmanuel> can see a few thinking only a few minutes to the subject: Emmanuel> - one might want conversion after some input has been Emmanuel> validated - coarse grained around "convertibility"? Or is that Emmanuel> the whole responsibility of the converter? - one might want Emmanuel> validation after some input has been converted - fine grained I honestly don't think it makes sense to validate against business rules until things are in the right type. Type conversion is merely the most fundamental kind of validation. Ed