JSR 303: How to Validate a Collection of annotated objects?

Question

Is it possible to validate a collection of objects in JSR 303 - Jave Bean Validation where the collection itself does not have any annotations but the elements contained wit

Answer 1

I wrote this generic class:

public class ValidListWrapper {

    @Valid
    private List list;

    public ValidListWrapper(List list) {
        this.list = list;
    }

    public List getList() {
        return list;
    }

}

If you are using Jackson library to deserialize JSON you can add @JsonCreator annotation on the constructor and Jackson will automatically deserialize JSON array to wrapper object.