Spring MVC Validation with annotation not working in nested fields

Question

Let's go straight to my classes Person.java

public class Person {

    @Size(min=4, max=10)
    private String name;

    @Range(min=0, max=80)
    private Integer age;

    @NotEmpty
    private String address;

    @Pattern(regexp="^[_A-Za-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$")
    private String email;

    @Past
    private Date birth;

    private Pet pet;
...
}

and Pet.java

public class Pet {

    @NotEmpty
    public String name;
    @NotEmpty
    public Integer age;
...
}

and this is my form

   <form:form action="enter" method="post" commandName="personForm">
name:   <form:input  path="name"/>      <form:errors path="name" />     <br/>
age:    <form:input  path="age"/>       <form:errors path="age" />      <br/>
address:<form:input  path="address"/>   <form:errors path="address" />  <br/>
email:  <form:input  path="email"/>     <form:errors path="email" />    <br/>
birth:  <form:input  path="birth"/>     <form:errors path="birth" />    <br/>
petName:<form:input  path="pet.name"/>  <form:errors path="pet.name" /> <br/>
petAge: <form:input  path="pet.age"/>   <form:errors path="pet.age" />  <br/>
<input type="submit" value="Register"/> <br/>
</form:form>

The code works well and shows message at form:error.. block when invalid values is entered except when it comes to petName and petAge.

Actually, the code doesn't validate petName and petAge at all. I'm using hibernate validator. Could Someone tell me How to solve this?

shazin · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-16 10:44:25Z

2

Try adding javax.validation.Valid annotation on top of pet.

public class Person {

    @Size(min=4, max=10)
    private String name;

    @Range(min=0, max=80)
    private Integer age;

    @NotEmpty
    private String address;

    @Pattern(regexp="^[_A-Za-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$")
    private String email;

    @Past
    private Date birth;

    @Valid  // This line   
    private Pet pet;

}

answered Mar 16, 2016 at 10:44

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