RF4+Spring+Hibernate validator

[vrelits]

Hi!

I'm writing custom bean validators (JSR 303) and want to @Autowired dependencies into them.

It works fine if I use it with spring wired Validator:

@Autowired

private Validator validator;

With Richfaces, however, the injection of @Autowired does not work.

I guess it somehow does not pick up the SpringContraintValidatorFactory.

I'm not sure how I get Richfaces to use this factory.

Currently my workaround is to do it manually:

public void initialize(ValidateAuthorisations constraintAnnotation) {

        if (autowiredBean == null) {

            FacesContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).getAutowireCapableBeanFactory()

                    .autowireBean(this);

        }

}

but of couse, I would like to get rid of this code.

Any suggestions?

[jnt30]

I went about this a bit different because I could not come up with the solution you were able to, using the SpringConstraintValidationFactory.

I wrote a custom javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorFactory that also implements org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware.  In the com.company.validation.CustomConstraintValidationFactory.setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext) method I simply save off the application context.  When a call is made to com.company.validation.CustomConstraintValidationFactory.getInstance(Class<T>) looking for a constraint validator, I first check to see if Spring is managing an instance of a bean that fits the class signature.  If it does, I return the Spring bean that is autowired up.  If it does not, I delegate to teh regular Validation.byDefaultProvider()'s implmenetation for looking up the validator.

You can customize this setting through the validation.xml that is located in the META-INF directory.  More information can be found at: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/validator/4.0.1/reference/en/html_single/#d0e1867