Support for declarative validation (Hibernate Validator, anticipating JSR 303) [SPR-69]

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Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-69 and commented

Support for defining validation rules on beans via source markup.

Support for declarative assignment of PropertyValidationRules to bean properties via Spring-IoC, through a scripting environment such as Groovy/Beanshell, or programatically in plain Java.

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Affects: 1.2 RC1

Issue Links:

• Validation: Initial support for dependency injection of a JSR-303 Validator [SPR-6035] #10704 Validation: Initial support for dependency injection of a JSR-303 Validator ("depends on")
• Integration of SpringMVC with Hibernate Validator [SPR-4528] #9205 Integration of SpringMVC with Hibernate Validator ("is duplicated by")
• Provide integrated support for validation within @MVC lifecycle [SPR-4975] #9650 Provide integrated support for validation within @MVC lifecycle ("is duplicated by")
• @Validator, @Validate [SPR-4774] #9451 @Validator, @Validate
• Integrating validation into the @MVC request lifecycle [SPR-5417] #10091 Integrating validation into the @MVC request lifecycle

14 votes, 13 watchers

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Matthew Payne commented

Would love to see something done here.

It would be nice to have a light weight/plugable validator.

I frequently see the need to validate an ramdom object against some type of declartive(xml?) setting.

For some favor XWork's (http://opensymphony.com/) validator is very nice to work with.

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Rob Harrop commented

I have moved this into the timeframe of 2.1 but it is definitely on the radar. AleksS and I have been working on a Java/.NET expression language that can then be used as the basis of a validation language (which Aleks has already prototyped for .NET). StevenD has been doing some interesting work on Valang and JanM is doing some interesting work in the rules area so there is certainly a lot to go at here.

Rob

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Steven Devijver commented

UriB is involved in the JSR-303 spec. It's still early days for this one but I think it would be a good candidate too.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Moving this to 3.0 M1, since we are unlikely to tackle this within the 2.x branch. 3.0 will also allow this to require Java 5 (without any constraints).

Juergen

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Donny A. Wijaya commented

I would like to have 'validation' namespace for declaring validation in Spring context.