[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (BVAL-152) TraversableResolver should differentiate reachability and cascadability

TraversableResolver should differentiate reachability and cascadability ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: BVAL-152 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/BVAL-152 Project: Bean Validation Issue Type: Improvement Components: spec-general Affects Versions: 1.0 proposed final draft Reporter: Emmanuel Bernard Fix For: 1.0 final /** * Contract determining if a property can be accessed by the Bean Validation provider * This contract is called for each property either validated or traversed. * * A traversable resolver implementation must be thread-safe. * * @author Emmanuel Bernard */ public interface TraversableResolver { /** * Determine if Bean Validation is allowed to reach the property state * * @param traversableObject object hosting <code>traversableProperty</code>, null if validateValue is called * @param traversableProperty name of the traversable property. * @param rootBeanType type of the root object passed to the Validator. * @param pathToTraversableObject path from the root object to * <code>traversableObject</code> ("" if the <code>traversableObject</code> * is the root object) * (using the path specification defined by Bean Validator). * @param elementType either <code>FIELD</code> or <code>METHOD</code>. * * @return <code>true</code> if Bean Validation is allowed to reach the property state, * <code>false</code> otherwise. */ boolean isReachable(Object traversableObject, String traversableProperty, Class<?> rootBeanType, String pathToTraversableObject, ElementType elementType); /** * Determine if Bean Validation is allowed to cascade validation on * the bean instance returned by the property value * marked as <code>@Valid</code>. * Note that this method is called only if isReachable returns true for the same set of * arguments and if the property is marked as <code>@Valid</code> * * @param traversableObject object hosting <code>traversableProperty</code>, null if validateValue is called * @param traversableProperty name of the traversable property. * @param rootBeanType type of the root object passed to the Validator. * @param pathToTraversableObject path from the root object to * <code>traversableObject</code> ("" if the <code>traversableObject</code> * is the root object) * (using the path specification defined by Bean Validator). * @param elementType either <code>FIELD</code> or <code>METHOD</code>. * * @return <code>true</code> if Bean Validation is allowed to cascade validation, * <code>false</code> otherwise. */ boolean isCascadable(Object traversableObject, String traversableProperty, Class<?> rootBeanType, String pathToTraversableObject, ElementType elementType); }