[hibernate-commits] Hibernate SVN: r17471 - validator/trunk/hibernate-validator/src/main/docbook/en-US/modules.

Author: hardy.ferentschik Date: 2009-09-02 15:30:35 -0400 (Wed, 02 Sep 2009) New Revision: 17471 Modified: validator/trunk/hibernate-validator/src/main/docbook/en-US/modules/usingvalidator.xml Log: HV-220 Modified: validator/trunk/hibernate-validator/src/main/docbook/en-US/modules/usingvalidator.xml =================================================================== --- validator/trunk/hibernate-validator/src/main/docbook/en-US/modules/usingvalidator.xml 2009-09-02 18:50:50 UTC (rev 17470) +++ validator/trunk/hibernate-validator/src/main/docbook/en-US/modules/usingvalidator.xml 2009-09-02 19:30:35 UTC (rev 17471) @@ -614,6 +614,17 @@ <section id="validator-usingvalidator-validationgroups" revision="1"> <title>Using groups</title> + <para>Groups allow you to restrict the set of constraints applied during + validation. This allows for example for wizard like validation where for + each step of the wizard only a specified subset of all defined constraints + get validated. The groups targeted are passed as var-args parameters to + <methodname>validate</methodname>, + <methodname>validateProperty</methodname> and + <methodname>validateValue</methodname>. All constraints belonging to the + targeted group are applied during the Section 3.5. When more than one + group is requested, the order in which the groups are evaluated is not + deterministic. </para> + <section revision="1"> <title>Group sequences</title> @@ -625,7 +636,7 @@ <title>Built-in constraints</title> <para>Hibernate Validator comes with some built-in constraints, which - covers most basic data checks. As we'll see later, you're not limited to + covers some basic data checks. As we'll see later, you're not limited to them, you can literally in a minute write your own constraints.</para> <table>