Can JSR 303 Bean Validation be used with Spring Data Rest?

Question

I understand from the docs http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/2.1.2.RELEASE/reference/html/validation-chapter.html that I can declare validators with certain prefix

Answer 1

To customize the spring data-rest configuration, register a RepositoryRestConfigurer (or extend RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter) and implement or override the configureValidatingRepositoryEventListener method for your specific use case.

public class CustomRepositoryRestConfigurer extends RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    private Validator validator;

    @Override
    public void configureValidatingRepositoryEventListener(ValidatingRepositoryEventListener validatingListener) {
        validatingListener.addValidator("beforeCreate", validator);
        validatingListener.addValidator("beforeSave", validator);
    }
}