Re: [hibernate-dev] Fail fast feature for Hibernate Validator

Too sad, that javax.validation.ValidatorContext is not defined as public interface ValidatorContext <V extends ValidatorContext<V>> { } If it were, we wouldn't need a dedicated method HibernateValidatorFactory#usingHibernateContext(), but HibernateValidatorFactory could be defined as public interface HibernateValidatorFactory extends ValidatorFactory { HibernateValidatorContext usingContext(); } then, allowing the validator to be retrieved like that: failFastValidator = factory.unwrap(HibernateValidatorFactory.class) .usingContext() .maxConstraintViolationCount(5) .getValidator();

note that we can also envision something like ailFastValidator = regularValidator.unwrap(HibernateValidatorFactory.class) .usingHibernateContext() .failFast(true) .getValidator(); I don't quite understand this approach, you want to unwrap a validator into a validator factory? Or do you think of re-configuring a once retrieved validator? Retrieving a new validator from an existing one seems akward to me.