[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (BVAL-12) <T> in ValidatorContext<T> Validator<T> and InvalidConstraint<T> are inadequately considered unique

A context can be created in a validator (T are equal). but the same context (a clone really) can be passed to a sub validator. Ts are then different. I believe it's the same for InvalidConstraints. An IC created by a subvalidator<U> will craete IC<U>, you will need to convert them in IC<T> when coming to the root validator<T>.

<T> in ValidatorContext<T> Validator<T> and InvalidConstraint<T> are inadequately considered unique --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: BVAL-12 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/BVAL-12 Project: Bean Validation Issue Type: Sub-task Components: ri-general Reporter: Emmanuel Bernard Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik In ValidatorImpl.validate() T Generic of ValidatorContext<T> and InvalidConstraint<T> are likely to be different than the Validator<T> A context can be created in a validator (T are equal). but the same context (a clone really) can be passed to a sub validator. Ts are then different. I believe it's the same for InvalidConstraints. An IC created by a subvalidator<U> will craete IC<U>, you will need to convert them in IC<T> when coming to the root validator<T>. So we need something like private <U> List<InvalidConstraintImpl<T>> validate(ValidationContext<U> context, List<String> groups) { } same for similar methods.