Cross field validation with Hibernate Validator (JSR 303)

Question

Is there an implementation of (or third-party implementation for) cross field validation in Hibernate Validator 4.x? If not, what is the cleanest way to implement a cross fi

Answer 1

You guys are awesome. Really amazing ideas. I like Alberthoven's and McGin's most, so I decided to combine both ideas. And develop some generic solution to cater all cases. Here is my proposed solution.

@Documented
@Constraint(validatedBy = NotFalseValidator.class)
@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD,ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface NotFalse {


    String message() default "NotFalse";
    String[] messages();
    String[] properties();
    String[] verifiers();

    Class[] groups() default {};

    Class[] payload() default {};

}

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public class NotFalseValidator implements ConstraintValidator {
    private String[] properties;
    private String[] messages;
    private String[] verifiers;
    @Override
    public void initialize(NotFalse flag) {
        properties = flag.properties();
        messages = flag.messages();
        verifiers = flag.verifiers();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isValid(Object bean, ConstraintValidatorContext cxt) {
        if(bean == null) {
            return true;
        }

        boolean valid = true;
        BeanWrapper beanWrapper = PropertyAccessorFactory.forBeanPropertyAccess(bean);

        for(int i = 0; i< properties.length; i++) {
           Boolean verified = (Boolean) beanWrapper.getPropertyValue(verifiers[i]);
           valid &= isValidProperty(verified,messages[i],properties[i],cxt);
        }

        return valid;
    }

    boolean isValidProperty(Boolean flag,String message, String property, ConstraintValidatorContext cxt) {
        if(flag == null || flag) {
            return true;
        } else {
            cxt.disableDefaultConstraintViolation();
            cxt.buildConstraintViolationWithTemplate(message)
                    .addPropertyNode(property)
                    .addConstraintViolation();
            return false;
        }

    }



}

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@NotFalse(
        messages = {"End Date Before Start Date" , "Start Date Before End Date" } ,
        properties={"endDateTime" , "startDateTime"},
        verifiers = {"validDateRange" , "validDateRange"})
public class SyncSessionDTO implements ControllableNode {
    @NotEmpty @NotPastDate
    private Date startDateTime;

    @NotEmpty
    private Date endDateTime;



    public Date getStartDateTime() {
        return startDateTime;
    }

    public void setStartDateTime(Date startDateTime) {
        this.startDateTime = startDateTime;
    }

    public Date getEndDateTime() {
        return endDateTime;
    }

    public void setEndDateTime(Date endDateTime) {
        this.endDateTime = endDateTime;
    }


    public Boolean getValidDateRange(){
        if(startDateTime != null && endDateTime != null) {
            return startDateTime.getTime() <= endDateTime.getTime();
        }

        return null;
    }

}