Package javax.validation

Interface Summary

BeanDescriptor	Describe a constrained Java Bean and the constraints associated to it.
Configuration<T extends Configuration<T>>	Receives configuration information, selects the appropriate Bean Validation provider and builds the appropriate ValidatorFactory.
ConstraintDescriptor<T extends Annotation>	Describes a single constraint and its composing constraints.
ConstraintValidator<A extends Annotation,T>	Defines the logic to validate a given constraint A for a given object type T.
ConstraintValidatorContext	Provide contextual data and operation when applying a given constraint validator
ConstraintValidatorFactory	Instantiate a ConstraintValidator instance from its class.
ConstraintViolation<T>	Describe a constraint violation.
ElementDescriptor	Describes a validated element (class, field or property).
MessageInterpolator	Interpolate a given constraint error message.
MessageInterpolator.Context	Informations related to the interpolation context
PropertyDescriptor	Describes a Java Bean property hosting validation constraints.
TraversableResolver	Contract determining if a property can be accessed by the Bean Validation provider This contract is called for each property either validated or traversed.
ValidationProviderResolver	Determine the list of Bean Validation providers available in the runtime environment Bean Validation providers are identified by the presence of META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider files following the Service Provider pattern described here Each META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider file contains the list of ValidationProvider implementations each of them representing a provider.
Validator	Validate bean instances.
ValidatorContext	Return a Validator corresponding to the initialized state.
ValidatorFactory	Factory returning initialized Validator instances.

Class Summary

Validation

This class is the entry point for the Bean Validation framework.

Exception Summary

ConstraintDeclarationException	Exception raised if a constraint declaration is not legal
ConstraintDefinitionException	Exception raised if a constraint definition is not legal
ConstraintViolationException	Report the result of constraint violations
GroupDefinitionException	Exception raised if a group definition is not legal
UnexpectedTypeException	Exception raised in the case that the constraint validator resolution cannot determine a suitable validators for a given type.
ValidationException	Base exception of all "unexpected" problems.

Annotation Types Summary

Constraint	Link between a constraint annotation and its constraint validation implementations.
GroupSequence	Define a group sequence The interface hosting @GroupSequence is representing the group sequence.
OverridesAttribute	Mark an attribute as overriding the attribute of a composing constraint.
OverridesAttribute.List	Defines several @OverridesAttribute annotations on the same element
ReportAsSingleViolation	A constraint annotation hosting this annotation will return the composed annotation error report if any of the composing annotations fail.
Valid	Mark an association as cascaded.