I have an entity called Audit this has a property auditnumber , I get these entities froma a csv file, I parse this file and create collection of audts. If any audit has auditnumber which is already in database then its invalid audit , for checking this I want to use Hibernate custom validator ,
this custom validator I want to initialize with a collection of auditnumbers which are already in database and in isValid method I will check if this number exists I return false,
can I do this , I mean I did not see any example of ConstraintValidator which I initialize using a query or someother bean , please advice me how to achieve this.

Hi,

I think the following article could help you http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Accessi ... tValidator
Be careful this approach has cons as discussed in the post.

Hope this help

--Kevin