If we /really/ want stopAfterNFailures, I'd go straight to it. It's easy to implement and will confuse people less. But the number of failures will be a guaranteed to be above int (if there are enough ;) ) and the order will be unspecified though today we do breadth-first I believe which is what most people will want.
I am still not 100% foreseeing why a UI would want 5 errors at most :) Max, want to weight in? On 5 oct. 2010, at 15:54, Gunnar Morling wrote: > Hi, > > a use case might be a data-centric application, where you for performance > reasons don't want to validate graphs completely once a failure occured, but > don't want to face the user with single validation errors one after the other > either. > > Specifying the validation order would surely be useful. But I wouldn't tie > these things together. I suggest to introduce a numeric parameter and for a > start either make clear that the validation order is not specified or only > support values 0 (don't stop on first error) and 1 (= failFast). Later on, if > validation order is spec'd, other values than these could easily be > supported. If we now introduce a boolean parameter, the API would be somewhat > "polluted" if we come up with a numeric parameter later on. Then we either > had two parameters (leaving space for inconsistent configurations) or had to > remove the boolean parameter again. > > Gunnar > > > 2010/10/4 Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> > Ive been toying with the number idea while talking with Max. > Im not sure what use case that solves provided the highly unpredictable > nature of what's get returned. > > It might be more useful and get a usecase if we spec what gets returned > roughly. Like deep-last algorithm etc. > > > > On 4 oct. 2010, at 22:17, Gunnar Morling <gunnar.morl...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I like the idea. Emmanuel's performance test showed an execution time per >> validation of 11 vs. 74 ms on my system, so there seems to be some >> potential. Instead of having a "failFast" flag one could also introduce a >> numeric parameter to control, when validation should stop. A value of "1" >> would be equal to the flag being true, but one could also decide to stop >> just after 3 validation errors for instance. >> >> Gunnar >> >> >> 2010/10/4 Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> >> That or slowish validations. >> >> One typical use case is that: >> >> if ( validator.validate(customer, StraightToValidationScreen.class).size() >> >0 ) { >> //manual process >> } >> else { >> //automatic process >> } >> >> BTW, I've committed a non scientific perf test that shows an average of 5x >> perf improvement on an object graph of 5 object (one master and 4 children) >> and 4 constraints on A and 3 on B. Around 22ms vs 120 ms. (log4j logs set to >> ERROR). The perf change is visible even on smallish graphs. >> >> It can be worthwhile. >> >> On 4 oct. 2010, at 16:20, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: >> >> > What would be the usecase? Saving time in large object graphs where I am >> > only interested in whether there is a >> > failure at all? You really need LARGE object graphs to make this worth >> > while. >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:45:34 +0200, Emmanuel Bernard >> > <emman...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> > >> >> http://github.com/emmanuelbernard/hibernate-validator/commits/failFast >> >> >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> >> >> The idea is to stop a the first failure. >> >> You can enable that : >> >> - by property >> >> - at config time >> >> - when the Validator is created >> >> >> >> Look at >> >> http://github.com/emmanuelbernard/hibernate-validator/blob/failFast/hibernate-validator/src/test/java/org/hibernate/validator/test/engine/failFast/FailFastTest.java >> >> for code examples. >> >> >> >> Emmanuel >> >> >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev