Change By: Hardy Ferentschik (08/Aug/12 5:35 AM)
Description: The current validation methods return  Set  _Set <ConstraintViolation> _  which forces users into string parsing in order to "navigate" to sub-properties and nested beans.

The suggestion is to add validation methods that return the  ConstraintViolation  _ConstraintViolation_ 's as a graph of nodes.

I think that the required node types are the same as the metadata descriptors from BV 1.1:

 * BeanNode (updated to match BV 1.1 style descriptors)
 * PropertyNode
* ConstructorNode
 * MethodNode
 * ParameterNode
 * ReturnValueNode

I also suggest to add special nodes for bean-properties/method-parameters that are of types List/Map:

 * ListNode
 * MapNode
Summary: make validation result available Return constraint violations  as a graph
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