[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (BVAL-16) Has the property passed to validator.validateProperty() be reachable by a valid chain of validation.

Has the property passed to validator.validateProperty() be reachable by a valid chain of validation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: BVAL-16 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/BVAL-16 Project: Bean Validation Issue Type: Task Components: ri-general, spec-general Reporter: Hardy Ferentschik if you do something like this validateProperty( foo, "prop1.prop2.prop3[3]" ), does this imply that the whole chain is validated? One could just get the value/class for prop[3] and see if there are any validations defined on it or you could actually traverse the whole path and also ensure that prop1 and prop2 are annotated with @Valid. To put it differently, has the property to validated be reachable via a valid 'validation chain'? Somehow it feels to be the right thing to do.