Question

I am trying to validate a form using Spring with integrated JSR-303 validations with Hibernate implementation. I have a “confirm email” (emailConf) field that I would like to confirm is equal to the email field. I saw a post of someone doing it like this:

public class ContactInfoForm {

    @NotEmpty
    private String name;

    @NotEmpty
    @Email
    private String email;

    @Expression(value = "emailConf= email", applyIf = "emailConf is not blank")
    private String emailConf;

    ...
}

However, this emailConf validation is not working (i.e. no error occurs when the fields don’t match). I’ve seen a couple tutorials that have shown similar annotations, but can’t find them anymore or any documentation on how this works. Does anyone know a way to validate “confirm email/password” fields through annotation? I am currently using the alternative, which is to implement Validator and validate the confirm fields in the validate method.

Answer 1

May you should have look at this question and its answers: there are many ways discussed how to do a such a validation (it is about password and password confirm, but the problem is the same).