3 Replies Latest reply on Jan 23, 2011 3:46 PM by nickarls

    Dependency Injection in JSF Validator

    devinderpal
    devinderpal Jan 22, 2011 2:34 PM

      Does dependency injection suppose to work with JSF validators? These validators are container managed classes and hence container should be able to inject. my small program:

       

      directory variable is always null..

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      ...

      @FacesValidator(value="com.cool.jsf.EmailValidator")

      public class EmailValidator implements Validator

      {

          @Inject

          private IDirectory directory;

       

          private static final String emailRegexPattern = "^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";

       

          @Override

          public void validate(FacesContext arg0, UIComponent arg1, Object arg2)

                  throws ValidatorException

          {

              String rawEmail = (String)arg2;

              Pattern p = Pattern.compile(emailRegexPattern, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);

              Matcher m = p.matcher(rawEmail);

              boolean validEmail = m.matches();

       

              if (!validEmail)

              {

                  FacesMessage msg = new FacesMessage("Invalid Email Address");

                  throw new ValidatorException(msg);

              }

       

              //now check if email already exists

              boolean emailExists = directory.doesEmailExist(rawEmail);

              if (emailExists)

              {

                  FacesMessage msg = new FacesMessage("Email Address already registered");

                  throw new ValidatorException(msg);

              }

          }

       

      }