manual validation based on hibernate validation

[marx3]

Hello
s:validateAll uses validation defined in model.
I would like to make it manually in backing bean.
So I have an entity bean filled with values, and now I want to apply validations from model.
How can i do that?

[marx3]

Accordingly to
hibernate documentation
i know how to launch validatoin from Java code. Hovewer to use it I have to somewhat translate model annotation to validator classes.
Is it possible to automate it, or I have to do that manually?

[nickarls]

I think I've always iterated through the InvalidValue[] myself.

[marx3]

I don't understand.

I have MyBean class with @Email annotation on:

public class MyBean {
  @Email
  public String email; 
}

in my model.

I also have an instance of myBean.

Now i want to simulate s:validateAll on myBean, so I need to launch hibernate validation of email.
I need to use reflection to read annotation from field, translate somehow this annotation to validator class, and then launch validator as described in hibernate validator documentation.

How can I do that simpler?

[marx3]

any help?

[nickarls]

ClassValidator v = new ClassValidator(MyBean.class);

InvalidValue[] iv = v.getInvalidValues(mybeaninstance);

for (v : iv) {

  // process the InvalidValue

}

[marx3]

Thank you, I see I didn't understand hibernate documentaion properly. Now it's clear!