Question

I am about to setup form validation in Spring 3.1. I am using Annotations to validate my Model, like this:

Model:

@Column(name = "mailAddress", nullable = false)
@Email
private String mailAddress;

@Column(name = "school", nullable = false)
@NotBlank
@Size(min = 3, max = 100)
private String school;

Controller:

    @RequestMapping(value = "/add", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public String addBooking(
            @ModelAttribute("new-booking") @Valid Booking booking,
            BindingResult result, Map<String, Object> model) {

        if (result.hasErrors()) {
            return "booking";
        }
            return "success";
     }

The Problem is, it validates the school but not the mailAddress. If you enter an empty mailAddress it will accept it.

Answer 1

I found the Issue. The Email Validator will accept Blank Emails. To fix this you only need to add a @NotBlank to it. Actually I thought the nullable = false would be enought, but wasn’t.

@Column(name = "mailAddress", nullable = false)
@Email
@NotBlank
private String mailAddress;