recursively validating entity properties

patrick_ibg Oct 13, 2005 7:50 PM

Say I have two entities, Person and Address. Person has an Address. (Address address = person.getAddress()). I want to enter the Person properties and Address properties on different pages within the same conversation.

When I click "continue" on the Person input page, I want SEAM to validate the Person entity, and if valid, display the Address input page.

When I click "continue" on the Address input page, I want SEAM to validate the Address entity, and if valid, display a confirmation page...

I have Person scoped to the SessionContext, and it is injected into my Action component. Person validation is working, but Address validation is not.

I think I can solve the problem by putting Address in the conversationContext and injecting it to my Action component and annotating it as @In @Valid. Then, before ending the conversation, I set the Address in the context onto the Person and persist the Person.

But perhaps there is a more elegant way?

1. Re: recursively validating entity properties

gavin.king Oct 17, 2005 7:59 AM (in response to patrick_ibg)

@Valid Addess address

will only cause validation to occur if address is non-null.

So leave it null until you are ready to have it be validated.
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