I'm using Spring+Hibernate+Spring-MVC.
I want to define a custom constraint combining two other predefined validation annotations: @NotNull @Size
like this:
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import javax.validation.constraints.Size;
@NotNull
@Size(min=4)
public @interface JPasswordConstraint {
} // this is not correct. It's just a suggestion.
and I want to use this annotation in my form models.
public class ChangePasswordForm {
@NotNull
private String currentPass;
@JPasswordConstraint
private String newPass;
@JPasswordConstraint
private String newPassConfirm;
}
@RequestMapping(value = "/pass", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String pass2(Model model, @Valid @ModelAttribute("changePasswordForm") ChangePasswordForm form, BindingResult result) {
model.addAttribute("changePasswordForm", form);
try {
userService.changePassword(form);
} catch (Exception ex) {
result.rejectValue(null, "error.objec", ex.getMessage());
System.out.println(result);
}
if (!result.hasErrors()) {
model.addAttribute("successMessage", "password changed successfully!");
}
return "user/pass";
}
But it does not work. It accepts the less than 4 character passwords.
How can I solve this problem?
This is a bit late, but technique of combining validation annotations described in
Maybe it was not available, at the time of writing, but solution is following
@NotNull
@Size(min=4)
@Target({ METHOD, FIELD, ANNOTATION_TYPE })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Constraint(validatedBy = { })
@Documented
public @interface JPasswordConstraint {
String message() default "Password is invalid";
Class<?>[] groups() default { };
Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default { };
}