[hibernate-dev] [HV] Extending ParameterNameProvider contract for other element types

[Gunnar Morling]

Hi,

On SO [1], a user asked whether it's possible to report custom names for
property constraint violations, e.g. "nm" as retrieved from the annotation
in this case:

    @JsonProperty("nm")
    @NotNull
    final public String name;

At the moment that's not possible with HV, but one might think about a
contract similar to ParameterNameProvider which returns the reported names
for properties (or even custom names to be used instead of the constants
"<return-value>" and "<cross-parameter>").

It's the first time I came across this requirement but adding support for
this should not be too complex and it might be helpful to some. Any
thoughts?

--Gunnar

[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18878868/hibernate-validator-and-jackson-using-the-jsonproperty-value-as-the-constraint