Include the Validator class on the InvalidValue object ------------------------------------------------------ Key: HV-20 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-20 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Improvement Components: legacy Reporter: Leonardo Quijano Priority: Minor It'd be nice to know which validator caused an InvalidValue entry to appear. For example, for a @NotNull annotation we'd have: InvalidValue.getValidatorClass() == org.hibernate.validator.NotNullValidator Then, on the web layer of the application, we could iterate over every InvalidValue[], summarizing all the NotNullValidator entries we get, and showing a msg: * Some required fields are missing. (and put some asterisks on the required fields, for example). (I guess that can be done with an additional BeanValidator, but this solution lets us work with the InvalidValue[] array after all validation has taken place)