Question

I have to implement validations for a web app that uses Spring MVC 3. The problem is that the bean class has methods like getProperty(“name”) and setProperty(“name”,valueObj). The validations have to be done on the data that is returned by passing different values to getProperty(“name”) , for eg: getProperty(“age”) should be greater than 16 and getProperty(“state”) should be required.

I would like to know if there is any support for validation this kind of Bean and if not, what can be the work around.

Thanks,
Atif

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to a custom validation class which implements org.springframework.validation.Validator.

@Component
public class MyValidator implements Validator {

    @Override
    public boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) {
        return MyBean.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz);
    }

    @Override
    public void validate(Object target, Errors errors) {
        MyBean myBean = (MyBean) target;

        if (StringUtils.isBlank(myBean.getProperty("state"))) {
            errors.rejectValue("state", "blank");
        }
    }

}

In your controller you would do manual validaton like follows:

@Autowired
private MyValidator myValidator;

@RequestMapping(value = "save", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String save(@ModelAttribute("myBean") MyBean myBean, BindingResult result) {

    myValidator.validate(myBean, result);
    if (result.hasErrors()) {
        ...
    }

    ...

}