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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Api refactoring -- validation
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Fang Wang <fang.wang@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In our current API refactoring work, we plan to add a validation annotation to
> Validate DB entity, validate some parameter range,  etc.
> We plan to add the @validate annotation to API commands.

This might be a silly question, but why the command classes and not
the Dao's?  Is this to validate the database inputs?  Or are we
talking about cleaning up the API input validation logic?

Thanks!

> IT is suggested we could use Hibernate Validator.  Anyone with experience with
> Hibernate validator, how we could deploy it here?
>
> 1. is there a version we should definitely use?
> 2. Which option is better to integrate into our maven? Add it as dependency or as a plugin?
> 3. What is the latest version working with maven?
>
> Thanks for any input,
> -Fang
>
>