Hibernate Validator - @Length - How to specify separate message for min and max?

Question

I am using Hibernate validator for form validation in my web-app. I am using the @Length annotation for my String attribute as follows:

@Length(min = 5, message         


        

Answer 1

If you use the java standard javax.validation.constraint.Size, you can achieve the same thing this way:

@Size.List ({
    @Size(min=8, message="The field must be at least {min} characters"),
    @Size(max=60, message="The field must be less than {max} characters")
})
private String myString;

Notice that you can avoid hardcoding the field size by using message interpolation.