org.springframework.validation
Interface SmartValidator

All Superinterfaces:

Validator

All Known Implementing Classes:

CustomValidatorBean, LocalValidatorFactoryBean, SpringValidatorAdapter

public interface SmartValidator
extends Validator

Extended variant of the Validator interface, adding support for validation 'hints'.

Since:

3.1

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

Method Summary

void	validate(Object target, Errors errors, Object... validationHints) Validate the supplied target object, which must be of a Class for which the Validator.supports(Class) method typically has (or would) return true.

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.validation.Validator

supports, validate

Method Detail

validate

void validate(Object target,
              Errors errors,
              Object... validationHints)

Validate the supplied target object, which must be of a Class for which the Validator.supports(Class) method typically has (or would) return true.

The supplied errors instance can be used to report any resulting validation errors.

This variant of validate supports validation hints, such as validation groups against a JSR-303 provider (in this case, the provided hint objects need to be annotation arguments of type Class).

Note: Validation hints may get ignored by the actual target Validator, in which case this method is supposed to be behave just like its regular Validator.validate(Object, Errors) sibling.

Parameters:

target - the object that is to be validated (can be null)

errors - contextual state about the validation process (never null)

validationHints - one or more hint objects to be passed to the validation engine

See Also:

ValidationUtils