How to autowire service in ConstraintValidator

Question

I\'m writting my application using Spring MVC. I want to validate is e-mail exists in database when user is registering. I\'ve written my own annotation constraint named

Answer 1

Don't you have a Validator configured in your bean context. If you are bootstrapping Validator via Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(); you are bypassing the Spring mechanism and you get a Validator which is not aware of Spring beans and components. Hence injection is not working. In your test you want to get hold of the Spring provided Validator.