Question

Is it possible to validate whole graph automatically ? By full graph I mean the object that is being validated and all its fields that are beans too.

Or I have to traverse through them manually as shown below ?

Currently I do something like this

    Set<ConstraintViolation<OrderProxy>> violationsOrder = 
         validator.validate(order, Default.class, ClientGroup.class);
    Set<ConstraintViolation<OrganizationProxy>> violationsOrg =  
         validator.validate(order.getSender(), Default.class, ClientGroup.class);
    Set<ConstraintViolation<PersonProxy>> violationsPerson = 
         validator.validate(order.getSender().getPerson(), 
                               Default.class, ClientGroup.class);

Answer 1

You can annotate any fields that you want validated with @Valid and when validating your main object, it will also validate the fields.

This works for example:

public class Order
    @Valid
    protected Header header;
    @Valid
    protected List<Detail> details;
}

You would need to call

Set<ConstraintViolation<Order>> violationsOrder = validator.validate(order, Default.class, ClientGroup.class);

to get all violations (also those for the fields). You would then have to parse the causes using getPropertyPath() to get the exact validation source, if you need it.

javax.validation.Path rp = violation.getPropertyPath();