[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-499) Add @URI validator to support relative URLs

[Hardy Ferentschik (JIRA)]

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Hardy Ferentschik commented on HV-499:
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Just throwing our some ideas:

* Obviously we could create an _ at URI_ constraint. However, the URI constructor (as well as the URL constructor) are only applying very weak validation of the URL/URI. A _ at URI_ constraint would for that reason also require a regexp part
* An alternative is to "allow" relative URLs w/ the _ at URL_ constraint. I think this can be achieved while staying backwards compatible. In this case you would have to specify, however, at least the protocal, eg _ at URL(protocol="http")_. See also - https://github.com/hferentschik/hibernate-validator/commit/acaddf789c284dbf4da23c60e8d01da00e600d79
* Yet another (backwards compatible) solution could be to add a _regexpOnly_ flag which is defaulted to _false_. If set to _true_ the validation only uses regular expression. Of course this requires that the user specifies a regexp which works for example for absolute and relative URLs.

Independent from _ at URI_ and _ at URL_ is there a need for something like _ at Path_ and/or _ at File_?

WDYT? 

> Add @URI validator to support relative URLs
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>                 Key: HV-499
>                 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HV-499
>             Project: Hibernate Validator
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: validators
>    Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Final
>            Reporter: Ted Bergeron
>             Fix For: 4.3.0.CR1
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> Should be trivial to leverage the @URL logic to allow for relative URI's.

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