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Validation

See equivalent in the Reactive stack

By default, if Bean Validation is present on the classpath (for example, Hibernate Validator), the LocalValidatorFactoryBean is registered as a global Validator for use with @Valid and Validated on controller method arguments.

In Java configuration, you can customize the global Validator instance, as the following example shows:

  • Java

  • Kotlin

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

	@Override
	public Validator getValidator() {
		// ...
	}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
class WebConfig : WebMvcConfigurer {

	override fun getValidator(): Validator {
		// ...
	}
}

The following example shows how to achieve the same configuration in XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
		https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
		https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

	<mvc:annotation-driven validator="globalValidator"/>

</beans>

Note that you can also register Validator implementations locally, as the following example shows:

  • Java

  • Kotlin

@Controller
public class MyController {

	@InitBinder
	protected void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
		binder.addValidators(new FooValidator());
	}
}
@Controller
class MyController {

	@InitBinder
	protected fun initBinder(binder: WebDataBinder) {
		binder.addValidators(FooValidator())
	}
}
If you need to have a LocalValidatorFactoryBean injected somewhere, create a bean and mark it with @Primary in order to avoid conflict with the one declared in the MVC configuration.