hi matt, if you have some interesting ideas we can prototype them. as soon as we have a nice solution, i'll discuss it in the eg.
regards, gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2010/7/12 Matt Benson <[email protected]> > A colleague just sent over a link to a blog about the Hibernate Validator > 4.1.0 release: > > > http://musingsofaprogrammingaddict.blogspot.com/2010/06/whats-new-in-hibernate-validator-41.html > > In particular, they now offer a dynamic API. Does anyone have any thoughts > on the API they've created? IMO if they have dynamic constraints, and bval > has dynamic constraints, eventually the spec will have dynamic constraints. > I personally don't think that dynamic constraints are that powerful unless > you have ways of "branching" constraint mappings from globally-applicable > down to instance-level (and possibly steps in between). I'm also not > thrilled with their fluent builders: they seem nice to use at compile-time, > but the fact that they would require a different builder per constraint type > to be written or generated seems less than optimal. I am wondering if we > could borrow some ideas from e.g. Mockito to stay typesafe and > compiler-checked yet avoid the need to write a builder per constraint. > > Thoughts? > > -Matt
