Hi all. I'm using Oval for all my validation and I'm evaluating Hibernate Validation 4 as a possible replacement, as it's jsr-303 compliant and all. It seems Hibernate Validation 4 (or the bean-validation jsr-303 for that matter) is missing one convenient feature of Oval, namely the implicit variables {context} and {invalidValue} which may be used in error-messages.

Say I have this annotation in Oval:

@Length(min = 5, max = 10)
private String code;

The I can have an error-message like this:
net.sf.oval.constraint.Length.violated={context} is not between {min} and {max} characters long. Invalid value is {invalidValue}.

From the Oval-docs:

I'm missing the {context} and {invalidValue} variables from Oval. Anyone know how to get the equivalent in Hibernate Validation 4?

Hi,

The actual validated value is not available per default during message interpolation. At least not in the JSR 303 specification. For later Hibernate Validator version we think about adding this feature. For now you can provide a custom MessageInterpolator. The MessageInterpolator interface gives you access to the invalid value so you can do your own interpolation. See also viewtopic.php?f=26&t=998338

--Hardy