[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (BVAL-285) ValidatorFactory#close should clearly state post condidtions
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Gunnar Morling commented on BVAL-285:
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Personally I'm still a bit uncertain about the {{ValidatorFactory#close()}} contract
in general. Doesn't that basically mean, that one always has to check whether the
factory is already closed when using a validator? If that's the case, how would one
realize such a check (I think this question was already raised before, I just don't
rembember what the answer was)?
I think it just feels akwards from an API perspective, that a validator spawned by a
factory is invalidated when that factory is closed. Intuitively I'd expect that the
validator is "detached" from the factory, that is the factory can't be used
anymore after it's closed, but validators created before should still be usable.
ValidatorFactory#close should clearly state post condidtions
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Key: BVAL-285
URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/BVAL-285
Project: Bean Validation
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: spec-general
Affects Versions: 1.1.next
Reporter: Hardy Ferentschik
The Javadocs for ValidatorFactory#close says:
{quote}
After the _ValidatorFactory_ instance is closed, it is not allowed to call:
* methods of this _ValidatorFactory_ instance
* methods of _Validator_ instances created by this _ValidatorFactory_
{quote}
It does, however, not specified what happens if such a method is called. I think with
this wording a post conditions needs to be specified, eg a _ValidationException_ will be
thrown. Otherwise the docs should say that the behavior is unspecified if any of the
mentioned methods is called after calling _close()_
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