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Hibernate Validator and Jackson: Using the @JsonProperty value as the ConstraintViolation PropertyPath?

Say I have a simple POJO like below annotated with Jackson 2.1 and Hibernate Validator 4.3.1 annotations:

final public class Person {
  @JsonProperty("nm")
  @NotNull
  final public String name;

  public Person(String name) {
      this.name = name;
  }
}

And I send JSON like such to a web service:

{"name": null}

Hibernate when it reports the ConstraintViolation uses the class member identifier "name" instead of the JsonProperty annotation value. Does anyone know if it is possible to make the Hibernate Validator look at the annotation of the class and use that value instead?

Solution

  • No, that's not possible. Hibernate Validator 5 (Bean Validation 1.1) has the notion of ParameterNameProviders which return the names to reported in case method parameter constraints are violated but there is nothing comparable for property constraints.