spring-validator

I am using Spring-mvc with ContentNegotiatingViewResolver for handle my response objects and parse into a specific format. When i return the object from controller, in response it add my response object but also add the object which i used to map the request parameter. My controller is act as rest controller. Because i want to create rest-services using spring with ContentNegotiatingViewResolver . After debugging, i found InvocableHandlerMethdod class in which invokeForRequest method contain following argument: public final Object invokeForRequest(NativeWebRequest request,

I have some model class public class Account { @Email private String email; @NotNull private String rule; } and spring-validator public class AccountValidator implements Validator { @Override public boolean supports(Class aClass) { return Account.class.equals(aClass); } @Override public void validate(Object obj, Errors errors) { Account account = (Account) obj; ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmpty(errors, "email", "email.required"); ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmpty(errors, "rule", "rule.required"); complexValidateRule(account.getRule(), errors); } private void complexValidateRule(String rule, Errors

I have been trying to add spring validators to a spring-data-rest project. I followed along and setup the "getting started" application via this link: http://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-rest/ ...and now I am trying to add a custom PeopleValidator by following the documents here: http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/2.1.0.RELEASE/reference/html/validation-chapter.html My custom PeopleValidator looks like package hello; import org.springframework.validation.Errors; import org.springframework.validation.Validator; public class PeopleValidator implements Validator { @Override public