[bv-dev] Support DI within constraint validators

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Yes, one of the consequences as you point out is that we will define the @MethodValidated contract in BV.
While I think it's a good thing, I want everyone to understand this consequence.

On 15 août 2012, at 22:56, Gunnar Morling wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> based on an issue I recently filed, CDI lead Pete Muir started a
> thread on the integration of BV and CDI over on the CDI mailing list
> [1].
> 
> The general question is where this integration should be described. My
> first assumption was, that the Java EE platform spec. would be the
> right place for this is, but Java EE co-lead Bill Shannon pointed out
> [2] that the preferred approach is to have such integrations described
> in one of the involved technology specs.
> 
> And actually we're already doing this to some degree as of the BV 1.1
> early draft [3]. So I guess our descriptions there need just to be a
> bit more authoritative ("must" instead of "should" etc.) and specific.
> In section 3.7, the CDI spec. currently also mentions built-in beans
> for Validator and ValidatorFactory to be provided by a Java EE
> container. To consolidate the specs I tend to think that this section
> should be merged into BV section 5.5.7.1.
> 
> The same approach should probably also be taken for the description of
> triggering method validation under Java EE using the @MethodValidated
> annotation.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> --Gunnar
> 
> [1] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/cdi-dev/2012-August/001978.html
> [2] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/cdi-dev/2012-August/002045.html
> [3] http://beanvalidation.org/1.1/spec/#d0e6698
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