@Size annotation to validate a field

Andy picture Andy · Jul 6, 2016 · Viewed 20k times · Source

I need to validate a field - secPhoneNumber (secondary phone #). I need to satisfy below conditions using JSR validation

  • The field can be empty/null
  • Otherwise, the data must be of length 10.

I tried the code below. The field is always getting validated on form submission. How do I validate the field to be of length 10 only when it is not empty?

Spring Form:

<form:label path="secPhoneNumber">
Secondary phone number <form:errors path="secPhoneNumber" cssClass="error" />
</form:label>
<form:input path="secPhoneNumber" />

Bean

@Size(max=10,min=10)
    private String secPhoneNumber;

Answer

cralfaro picture cralfaro · Jul 7, 2016

I think for readability and to use in future times i would create my custom validation class, you only should follow this steps:

  1. Add your new custom annotation to your field

    @notEmptyMinSize(size=10)
    private String secPhoneNumber;
    
  2. Create the custom validation classes

    @Documented
    @Constraint(validatedBy = notEmptyMinSize.class)
    @Target( { ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD })
    @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
    public @interface notEmptyMinSize {
    
    
        int size() default 10;
    
        Class<?>[] groups() default {};
    
        Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};
    
    }
    
  3. Add your business logic to your validation

    public class NotEmptyConstraintValidator implements      ConstraintValidator<notEmptyMinSize, String> {
    
         private NotEmptyMinSize notEmptyMinSize;
    
         @Override
         public void initialize(notEmptyMinSize notEmptyMinSize) { 
             this.notEmptyMinSize = notEmptyMinSize
         }
    
         @Override
         public boolean isValid(String notEmptyField, ConstraintValidatorContext cxt) {
            if(notEmptyField == null) {
                 return true;
            }
            return notEmptyField.length() == notEmptyMinSize.size();
        }
    
    }
    

And now you could use this validation in several fields with different sizes.

Here another example you can follow example