comp.lang.java.programmer

Lew

6/16/2016 9:26:00 PM

Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> We have a strange problem with validation. We defined the following
> annotation:
> @Documented
> @Constraint(validatedBy = {})
> @Target({ FIELD })
> @Retention(RUNTIME)
> @ReportAsSingleViolation
> @NotNull
> @Size(min = 1)
> public @interface NotEmpty {
> // default
> final static String errorMessage = "Field is not allowed to be empty";
>
> Class<?>[] groups() default {};
>
> String message() default errorMessage;
>
> Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};
> }
>
> We have this annotation defined on 8 fields, like:
> @NotEmpty(message = "ZIP-code is not allowed to be empty")
>
> Only one field (the one with the ZIP-code) is empty, but when we call
> persist we get a validation exception of five of them. When we print
> the name of the field, the message and the invalid value, we see it is
> the NotEmpty annotation that fired and that except for ZIP-code the
> fields are filled. ZIP-code contains the empty string.
>
> Also when we fill ZIP-code the persist does not fire with an
> validation exception.
>
> What could be the reason we get a validation exception for four fields
> we should not get one for?

Can you please prepare an SSCCE (Simple, Self-Contained, Compilable Example), per http://... ?

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Lew