Hibernate Validator annotations not working with spring mvc

Question

I have a problem with Hibernate Validator. I putted in my code @Size annotation but when I am running app on Tomcat server I can submit without filled text field. What is wrong with this code?

Customer class:

import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import javax.validation.constraints.Size;

public class Customer {

    private String firstName;

    @NotNull(message="is required")
    @Size(min=1, message="is required")
    private String lastName;

    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return lastName;
    }

    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
}

CustomerController class:

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

import javax.validation.Valid;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/customer")
public class CustomerController {

    @RequestMapping("/showForm")
    public String showForm(Model theModel) {
        theModel.addAttribute("customer", new Customer());
        return "customer-form";
    }

    @RequestMapping("/processForm")
    public String processForm(
            @Valid @ModelAttribute("customer") Customer theCustomer, BindingResult theBindingResult) {

        if (theBindingResult.hasErrors()) {
            return "customer-form";
        } else {
            return "customer-confirmation";
        }
    }
}

dispatcher-servlet.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

    <!-- Add support for scanning countries from file -->
    <util:properties id="countryOptions" location="WEB-INF/countries.properties" />

    <!-- Step 3: Add support for component scanning -->
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.rafal.springdemo" />

    <!-- Step 4: Add support for conversion, formatting and validation support -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven/>

    <!-- Step 5: Define Spring MVC view resolver -->
    <bean
            class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

</beans>

customer-form.jsp

   <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Customer Registration Form</title>
    <style>
        .error {color:red}
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <form:form action="processForm" modelAttribute="customer" >

        First name: <form:input path="firstName" />

        <br><br>

        Last name (*): <form:input path="lastName" />
        <form:errors path="lastName" cssClass="error" />

        <br><br>

        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />

    </form:form>




</body>
</html>

And screenshots from lib folder and project structure.

Content of lib directory

Project structure and dependencies

@GUISSOUMAIssam <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %> <html> <head> <title>Customer Registration Form</title> <style> .error {color:red} </style> </head> <body> <form:form action="processForm" modelAttribute="customer" > First name: <form:input path="firstName" /> <br><br> Last name (*): <form:input path="lastName" /> <form:errors path="lastName" cssClass="error" /> <br><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form:form> </body> </html> — user8116296
– user8116296, Commented Jun 27, 2018 at 14:16
@user8116296 This is from the udemy course of Chad. Were you able to fix this ? What was the solution. — vibhor vaish
– vibhor vaish, Commented Feb 24, 2021 at 7:42

Parth Kansara · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-27 14:52:55Z

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You might need to add the following bean definition in your xml.

<bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean"/>

OR

for custom error messages you need to create a message.properties in the resource folder and use ResourceBundleMessageSource

<!-- bind your messages.properties -->
<bean class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"
    id="messageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="messages" />
</bean>

edited Jun 27, 2018 at 14:52

answered Jun 27, 2018 at 14:42

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user8116296 Over a year ago

Now I cannot run my app and i've got errors.

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean] for bean with name 'validator' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested ..

GUISSOUMA Issam Over a year ago

add the whole stack trace

Parth Kansara Over a year ago

It should work u seem to have the dependency already in your classpath

user8116296 Over a year ago

I cannot paste it here because it's too long for comment. It's pastebin link for error pastebin.com/hTYN6gux

Parth Kansara Over a year ago

Please check link I think you need to remove the <groupId>javax.validation</groupId> <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>

Eunito · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-27 14:56:42Z

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Did you try to place

 <!-- Hibernate Validator -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
     <version>5.4.1.Final</version>
 </dependency>

in your pom.xml?

answered Jun 27, 2018 at 14:56

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user8116296 Over a year ago

It's project created without maven and I don't have pom.xml

Hirshi · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-17 22:24:43Z

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I used the jar hibernate-validator-5.1.3.Final and it worked for me. I was facing the same problem when I was using 6.

answered Sep 17, 2020 at 22:24

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Hirshi Over a year ago

I was facing the same issue where the bean validations were not working, using hibernate validator version 6.1.5. So I downgrade to 5.1.3 and it worked for me. I am not sure why hibernate validator 6.1.5 did not work with the code above.

vibhor vaish Over a year ago

I downgraded to 5.2.4 but even that didn't work.

andydavies · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-26 20:54:44Z

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Restarting IntelliJ fixed this for me. Really. 25 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

answered Jan 26, 2021 at 20:54

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Roman_G · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-21 16:18:27Z

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I had the same problem.

My solution was using older version of Hybernate validator. The thing is they changed package name into jakarta. instead of javax. from version 6.2 and it was causing problems for me, because spring class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean" was still implementing javax.validation.ValidatorFactory

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Byaruhanga Innocent · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-13 18:32:24Z

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I had the same problem using Hibernate Validator 7. I used Hibernate 6 and the problem was solved!

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Abdelmajid Id Ali · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-03 00:11:52Z

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I was having the same problem, To solve this use @NotEmpty instead of @NotNull, this should fix the issue.

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