I'm trying to create a custom validation wherein I have defined the annotation to accept an array of Strings for example:

public @interface Enum {
String message() default "{}";

Class<?>[] groups() default {};

Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};

String[] value();
}

where value is an array of Strings. In the annotation i can use it as @Enum(value={"ABC", "PQR"}) & i can also retrieve this information at runtime. But when i represent the same information in the xml format as.

<constraint annotation="com.customvalidation.Enum">
<element name="value">ABC</element>
<element name="value">PQR</element>
</constraint>

it doesn't work, does any body have idea on how to represent the array in XML..?

Does anybody have any idea how to do this? I'm stuck at this point.

Hi,

I think you would do that like this:



Here the "element" node refers to the member "value" of your annotation type "enum", while the inner "value" elements represent the array members of that "value" attribute.

You can find more information and also another example in section 7.1.1.4 of the BV specification.

--Gunnar