[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Validator: bean-level validation

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Would that help
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-22

a. can you expand your idea?
b. not sure why this is a problem, because you are not validating  
property 'name', you're validation 'name' and 'age' alltogether,  
hence there is no property name

On  Dec 6, 2007, at 10:47, Robert Spielmann wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I ran into some sort of problem while trying to use Hibernate  
> Validator for context-based attribute validation. A property of the  
> bean only had to be present under certain circumstances. I found  
> two possible ways to deal with this:
>
> 1. Validate the aforementioned property using something other than  
> Hibernate Validator because annotation parameters must be constant  
> at compile time and cannot be set at runtime,
> 2. Write my own bean-level validator in order to get access to the  
> entire bean, which brings in a problem with the InvalidValue array:  
> for bean-level annotations, the returned property name is null. As  
> soon as you have more than one bean-level annotation, you cannot  
> distinguish between the fields the annotation(s) tried to validate.
>
> It would be very nice if I could:
>
> a) Pass parameters to the validator at runtime or
> b) return a not-null property name for bean-level validation.
>
> Hope that I haven't missed a way which solves this problem; I'd  
> like very much to hear about your opinions on this.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>
> Robert Spielmann
> IT Consultant
>
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