[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (BVAL-41) Support BeanInfo implementation to receive property names

Support BeanInfo implementation to receive property names --------------------------------------------------------- Key: BVAL-41 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/BVAL-41 Project: Bean Validation Issue Type: Improvement Components: spec-general Reporter: Emmanuel Bernard Michael - Why section 3.1.2 requires properties to follow the JavaBeans naming convention? In many non-English speaking countries (and projects with ridiculous managers/code standards), other prefixes are used and proper BeanInfo implementations are supplied. Although it is not pretty at all, since they are following the JavaBean spec, I don't think Bean Validation shouldn't work out-of-the-box for them; Emmanuel I reused the Java Persistence wording actually and I explicitly reference the Introspector class. Do people think we should be more cautious here? Speaking for France, I've never seen a project bothering about get/is/set and BeanInfo. People happily used frenglish: getCafeAuLait() Actually I've never seen anybody from the server side bothering about BeanInfos ;) Michael I've got an interesting case for that one: in some JVM languages, another standard is used to represent properties. Let's take, for instance, Scala. In Scala, one could write a bean like: @BeanInfo class Person(var id : Long, var name : String, var surname : String) Scala already maps vars as properties creating a private var, a public getter method named like the var and a setter like var_=. Something like: private var _id : Long def id = _id def id_=(newId: Long) = _id = newId that would translate to Java methods id and id_$eq (since = cannot be used in method names). So, when one use @BeanInfo, a proper BeanInfo subclass is generated by the compiler providing that mapping. Given how popular JVM languages are getting, not following a spec in another one and causing property support in those languages to fail to work doesn't seem nice. BTW, please let the JPA EG know about his as well.