Hello,

Since several month I work on a security oriented project. It use HV as a Framework and provide annotation in order to check user input for malicious injection.

The project is free and Open source : https://github.com/righettod/hibernate-validator-security-contribs

This post objective is not advertising, is only to ask if this project can interest HV community.

For sure you can delete my post if this one is not interesting for HV.

Thanks in advance.

Dominique

Hi Dominique,

thanks for the heads up and that's for sure the right place to post this. Awesome work. There is always an interest in extending the existing Hibernate Validator constraint set. It is just a matter of discussion on whether certain constraints make sense for general purpose use and whether someone wants to step up and contribute something :-)

There are several things you can do now. First you could sign up on the hibernate-dev mailing list to open an discussion around this - http://www.hibernate.org/community/mailinglists. By using the mailing list you will reach the core Hibernate (Validator) developers and you can explain your ideas.

Next you could have a look at "Contributing to Hibernate Validator" - https://community.jboss.org/wiki/ContributingtoHibernateValidator. There you can see how to clone, build and test Hibernate Validator. Maybe you want to give it a go and try to integrate some of your constraints. The chance that we add new functionality is much greater if we get finished pull request for these features.

How does that sound?

--Hardy

And I forgot to mention, you could also open a feature request ticket on http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV to discuss this further.
Choices, choices, choices ;-)