[bv-dev] Dependency between constraints and validators

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 24 oct. 2011, at 22:08, Gunnar Morling wrote:

>> 
>> - we would need to list all binding via a programmatic API (that solution does break compile time checking BTW)
> 
> Why would that break compile-time type-safety?

Imagine the following code

    void main(args[] args) {
        ValidatorFactory factory = Validation
            .byDefaultProvider()
            .configure()
              .addBinding(NotNull.class, NumberNotNullValidator.class)
            .createValidatorFactory();

        public static class Address {
            @NotNull String getStreet() { ... };
        }
    }

How would an annotation processor know that the factory is configured to bind NotNull with NumberNotNullValidator and thus that Address.getStreet cannot be validated?