[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-406) URL Validator not effective

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-406?page=com... ] Gunnar Morling commented on HV-406: ----------------------------------- I think this is similar to @Email - from a specification point of view much more values are valid than one typically finds in the wild. Restricting @URL values to "real" internet addresses seems a bit too strict IMO, though. For instance "http://localhost" as an URL value seems not that uncommon, so this should not be considered as invalid by HV (btw. the domain part can be longer than three characters: *.info, *.name or even *.museum). Generally I think the requirements for validating URLs just depend too much on the context of the use case at hand, so it's really hard to provide a generic solution for this. For instance according to [WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator] URLs also could contain parts such a username or a password: http://username:password@domain:port/ In one use case this might be valid, in others not. Personally I feel we should stick with using java.net.URL for validation as this ensures correctness according to what Java can process technically as URL. If in a certain scenario a more restrictive validation is needed, using @Pattern in addition to @URL might help. -- 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