Hi Hibernate validator community,

I want to know how can i use different validator for the same object. Let's say i have a Employee class to validate and i want to validate it with different ways. For example, for a HR employee, i want to validate it based on the fact that the HR person can set any type of employee to the object while a Director employee can only set "normal" type for an Employee object.

I want to be able to use many validation.xml files based on a condition that is only decided at runtime. Is is possible ?

Hi,

validation.xml is not really an option here. The spec says:

You could programmatically create multiple ValidatorFactorys and have multiple Validators. I don't think I would recommend this approach though. I probably would write a custom constraint where in the ConstraintValidator implementation I act depending on the user logged in. Or maybe you could use groups. Assign you constraints to groups (eg HS group and Director group), then when you call Validator.validate only validate the group depending on the logged in person. This is probably the best solution.

--Hardy