Spring validation for RequestBody parameters bound to collections in Controller methods

Question

I have

An Entity:

package org.ibp.soq;

public class MyEntity {

    private String field1;
    private String field2;

    //..get         


        

Answer 1

As you might have guessed this cannot be achieved using Spring Validation. Spring Validation implements Bean Validation(JSR 303/349) as opposed to Object validation. Unfortunately a collection is not a Java Bean. You have two options

• Wrap your list inside a Java Bean
• Call the validator manually in your bulk create method myEntityValidator. validate(targetObject, errors).