On 20/07/11 20:50, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
> Hi Experts,
>
> Marek and I met with Emmanuel Bernard (lead for Bean Validation JSR)
> this morning. I'm happy to report that our server side proposal [1] is
> very much inline with the work planned for BV 1.1. Specifically, they
> are planning to add support for method and constructor param validation
> as part of JSR 349, which is exactly what we need.
>
> In the next few days, I'll make some minor changes to our proposal to
> incorporate some feedback and clarify the validation lifecycle in more
> detail. Will likely only update the spec document and not the wiki.
>
> The one area that needs our attention is validation in the Client API.
> If you read that section in [1], you'll understand some of the
> challenges we face there. In particular, around annotation instances.
> Emmanuel's feedback was to drop validation from this low-level API and
> revisit the problem when a high-level API is discussed (where, likely,
> more assumptions about the client/server contract are available).
>
> Is anyone opposed to dropping validation from the low-level API? If so,
> please state your case ;)
>
+1 to dropping validation from the low-level API
Cheers, Sergey
> -- Santiago
>
> [1] http://java.net/projects/jax-rs-spec/pages/Validation