JSR-303 bean validation with Spring does not kick in

Question

I\'ve configured a JSR-303 custom validator following what\'s given in the docs (http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/validation.html), co

Answer 1

For spring to validation to kick in the blend argument needs a @Valid annotation in front of it.

Your approach might not work since parameter contraints are not supported by the JSR303.

Constraint annotations can target any of the following ElementTypes:

FIELD for constrained attributes

METHOD for constrained getters

TYPE for constrained beans

ANNOTATION_TYPE for constraints composing other constraints

http://beanvalidation.org/1.0/spec/#constraintsdefinitionimplementation