[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-585) Order of validation messages is lost

[ https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HV-585?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Gunther Schmidl commented on HV-585: ------------------------------------ Right, I'm saying it would be nice to have the option of a guaranteed order. As an example, in my current application, I add five constraint violations at once if specific conditions are not met, so you would get something like: Invalid password: {numMin} of the following conditions must be met: At least {numLC} lowercase characters. At least {numUC} uppercase characters. At least {numSC} special characters. At least {numNC} digits. I am adding these constraints using validatorContext.buildConstraintViolationWithTemplate(message).addConstraintViolation(), which puts the items in an ArrayList. Later, they are moved to a HashSet, and then to a String[] array for display. So the question is: why keep order intact when adding constraints (ArrayList) and displaying constraints (String[]), but not inbetween? Obviously, the HashSet randomly jumbles the order of messages, which then make no sense. Using a LinkedHashSet in the implementation instead would keep the order intact. As it is, I am currently implementing my own <custom:errors> JSP tag which sorts the messages by a number prefix it then removes, which is of course suboptimal. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira