After executing the validation on a bean using the ClassValidator and getting the array of InvalidValues. Other than the InvalidValue's message attribute is there any other attribute that may tell you which constrains failed on the bean? I need to be able to distinguish between the different constraints.


For example:
public class Test
{

@Max(value="45")
@NotEmpty
public int number;

@NotEmpty
public String data;
}

Having a Test instance with the following values

Test t = new Test();
t.number=34;
t.message="";

One of my business rules to discard an object is that the value on the number attribute is less than 45, how can I make sure that this rule was broken by the object above other than parsing the Invalid value message? And as you know these message can be customized so that means I cannot trust them.

thanks in advance

Hi,

Maybe InvalidValue.getPropertyName() and InvalidValue.getPropertyPath() might be useful for you. Using these methods you can easily distinguish between constraint violations on data vs number. It would not help though in order to find out which of the two constraint on number failed.

--Hardy