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Bean Validation Using The Hibernate Validator

Bean Validation Using The Hibernate Validator

Let’s learn to validate the request data for the REST APIs.

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Add validation dependency

First, let’s add the validation dependency provided by Spring Boot— spring-boot-starter-validation—into our build.gradle file.

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dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation'
}

This will add the required hibernate-validator dependency to our todo appilcation, allowing us to express and validate constraints on the entity for request validation.

Entity setup for validation

Javax’s validation framework provides a few annotations like ...