[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HV-353) Support inheritance for marker interfaces

Support inheritance for marker interfaces ----------------------------------------- Key: HV-353 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-353 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Improvement Components: annotation-processor Affects Versions: 4.1.0.Final Reporter: Marc Schipperheyn Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik Currently, constraints use marker interface specified in the group attribute to determine whether a constraint is active for a certain context. Unfortunately, group membership doesn't seem to support inheritance which would greatly reduce the number of markers required (and processing since you need less markers). E.g. (contrived) public interface CheckVehicle{} public interface CheckCar extends CheckVehicle{} public interface CheckBicycle extends CheckVehicle{} //bean @AssertTrue(groups={CheckVehicle.class}) Boolean workingBrakes() @NotNull(groups={CheckBicycle.class}) String brakeType() If the active group is CheckBicycle, it should validate both workingBrakes and brakeType. It should be a relatively simply change as well. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira