[JERSEY-1911] bean validation doesn't work when constraints placed on getters Created: 05/Jun/13 Updated: 10/Sep/15 Resolved: 14/Jun/13 Status: Project: Component/s: Affects Version/s: Fix Version/s: Closed jersey extensions 2.0, 2.1 Type: Reporter: Resolution: Labels: Remaining Estimate: Time Spent: Original Estimate: Bug Łukasz Wiktor Fixed None 0 minutes Tags: jersey-bean-validation 2.0.1, 2.1 Priority: Assignee: Votes: Major Michal Gajdos 0 4 hours 3 hours Description Normally, there are 2 ways to declare validation constraints of a bean property: directly on a field or on a getter. The second way doesn't work with jersey-bean-validation when you pass a bean as an argument to a method. How to reproduce: 1. Take the bean-validation-webapp example project 2. Run ContactCardTest - all tests passes 3. Go to ContactCard and move all validation annotations from fields to appropriate getters, for example: 4. Run ContactCardTest again - testAddInvalidContact fails Comments Comment by Łukasz Wiktor [ 05/Jun/13 ] Here you have the modified version of the ContactCard class (with constraint annotations moved to getters): /* * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS HEADER. * * Copyright (c) 2012 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * * The contents of this file are subject to the terms of either the GNU * General Public License Version 2 only ("GPL") or the Common Development * and Distribution License("CDDL") (collectively, the "License"). You * may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can * obtain a copy of the License at * http://glassfish.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL_1_1.html * or packager/legal/LICENSE.txt. 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However, if you add GPL Version 2 code * and therefore, elected the GPL Version 2 license, then the option applies * only if the new code is made subject to such option by the copyright * holder. */ package org.glassfish.jersey.examples.beanvalidation.webapp.domain; import import import import javax.validation.constraints.DecimalMin; javax.validation.constraints.NotNull; javax.validation.constraints.Pattern; javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement; import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Email; import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Length; /** * @author Michal Gajdos (michal.gajdos at oracle.com) */ @XmlRootElement public class ContactCard { private Long id; private String fullName; private String email; private String phone; @DecimalMin(value = "1") public Long getId() { return id; } public void setId(final Long id) { this.id = id; } @NotNull(message = "{contact.wrong.name}") @Length(min = 2, max = 20) public String getFullName() { return fullName; } public void setFullName(final String fullName) { this.fullName = fullName; } @Email(message = "{contact.wrong.email}", regexp = "[a-zA-Z0-9._%-]+@[a-zAZ0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}") public String getEmail() { return email; } public void setEmail(final String email) { this.email = email; } @Pattern(message = "{contact.wrong.phone}", regexp = "[0-9]{3,9}") public String getPhone() { return phone; } public void setPhone(final String phone) { this.phone = phone; } @Override public boolean equals(final Object o) { if (this == o) { return true; } if (!(o instanceof ContactCard)) { return false; } final ContactCard that = (ContactCard) o; if (email != null ? !email.equals(that.email) : that.email != null) { return false; } if (fullName != null ? !fullName.equals(that.fullName) : that.fullName != null) { return false; } if (phone != null ? !phone.equals(that.phone) : that.phone != null) { return false; } return true; } @Override public int hashCode() { int result = fullName != null ? fullName.hashCode() : 0; result = 31 * result + (email != null ? email.hashCode() : 0); result = 31 * result + (phone != null ? phone.hashCode() : 0); return result; } } To confirm that validation should work when constraints are defined on getters you can run following test: @Test public void testInvalidContactDirectValidation() throws Exception { final ContactCard entity = new ContactCard(); entity.setPhone("Crrrn"); ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(); Validator validator = factory.getValidator(); Set<ConstraintViolation<ContactCard>> constraintViolations = validator.validate(entity); Set<String> messageTemplates = new HashSet<String>(); for (ConstraintViolation<ContactCard> cv : constraintViolations) { messageTemplates.add(cv.getMessageTemplate()); } assertEquals(2, constraintViolations.size()); assertTrue(messageTemplates.contains("{contact.wrong.name}")); assertTrue(messageTemplates.contains("{contact.wrong.phone}")); } It has data and asserts the same as in the testAddInvalidContact. The only difference is that in this case you run the validation directly. Comment by Łukasz Wiktor [ 17/Jun/13 ] Good job Michal! Nice to see it resolved so quickly. Thanks a lot. Generated at Tue Feb 09 17:32:43 UTC 2016 using JIRA 6.2.3#6260sha1:63ef1d6dac3f4f4d7db4c1effd405ba38ccdc558.