ZipCode and @Country in the Seam manual

[ericjung2]

Hi,

In the seam manual Chapter 10 JSF form validation in Seam it says:

it might be more elegant to use custom constraints instead of the ones built into Hibernate Validator:

public class Location {

...

    @Country
    public String getCountry() { return country; }
...
    @ZipCode
    public String getZip() { return zip; }
}

But @Country and @ZipCode are never explained. I can find no definition of them in Seam or Hibernate Validator, nor any examples of their use in the Seam examples.

I'd like to create my own validator called @ValidDays which validates a java.util.Date against valid business days. Where can I find more information about custom constraints?

Thank you,
Eric

[joblini]

Hi Eric,

See Hibernate Validator doc, section 1.4

[ericjung2]

Thanks, Ingo. I'd already figured it out by reverse engineering Seam's @Past and @Future annotations. But it's good to know this is documented somewhere. If I find the time, I'll submit a patch to the Chapter 10 documentation so it has a link to the URL you posted.

Thanks again,
Eric