Question

I am using @NotEmpty annotation from Hibernate validator. However I am required to provide custom message. Thus I am trying the following in order to eliminate duplicate code

@org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty
public @interface NotEmpty {
    String message() default "{notempty}";
}

Is above the right way to do that ? May I know what’s the term of this annotation overriding ?

Answer 1

If you want to provide default message change the value of key org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty.message inside ValidationMessages.properties there is no need to have another annotation. Also this is defualt message you can anyways specify message while declaring annotion

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