[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Validator: bean-level validation

Hi all, I ran into some sort of problem while trying to use Hibernate Validator for context-based attribute validation. A property of the bean only had to be present under certain circumstances. I found two possible ways to deal with this: 1. Validate the aforementioned property using something other than Hibernate Validator because annotation parameters must be constant at compile time and cannot be set at runtime, 2. Write my own bean-level validator in order to get access to the entire bean, which brings in a problem with the InvalidValue array: for bean-level annotations, the returned property name is null. As soon as you have more than one bean-level annotation, you cannot distinguish between the fields the annotation(s) tried to validate. It would be very nice if I could: a) Pass parameters to the validator at runtime or b) return a not-null property name for bean-level validation. Hope that I haven't missed a way which solves this problem; I'd like very much to hear about your opinions on this. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Robert Spielmann IT Consultant -- codecentric GmbH Grünewalder Str. 29-31 42657 Solingen Telefon +49 (212) 2494-322 Fax +49 (212) 2494-334 Mobil +49 (151) 14705709 E-Mail spielmann(a)codecentric.de Internet www.codecentric.de <http://www.codecentric.de/> Geschäftsführer: Peter Gierse, Mirko Novakovic und Rainer Vehns Sitz der Gesellschaft: Solingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Wuppertal, HRB 19214