Thanks for the clarification, Animesh. On 12/13/12 10:46 AM, "Animesh Chaturvedi" <animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com> wrote:
>Hibernate allows writing custom validators. I think in this specific use >case, database lookup for index will be expensive and it is better to >throw UncheckedException in API Implementation when the index is not >found. > >Here is the link to API documentation > >http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/validator/4.3/reference/en-US/html_single/ > > >Animesh > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Min Chen [mailto:min.c...@citrix.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:12 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Api refactoring -- validation >> >> One question regarding Hibernate Validator: does it support validation >>of >> existence of a DB entity with a given ID? The reason I am raising this >>question >> is that we have such a validation case in API refactoring. For example, >> deployVMCmd has an input parameter "templateId", for this parameter, we >> need to validate the template with the given id exists in the Template >>table. >> Not sure if Hibernate validator supports this scenario? By glancing >>through >> Hibernate validator doc, didn't find exact details on this, maybe I >>overlooked >> something. >> >> Thanks >> -min >> >> On 12/13/12 10:04 AM, "Fang Wang" <fang.w...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> >Hibernate Validator >
