Bean Validation API for Data POJO

Batch applications can leverage Bean Validation API to perform data validation, by embedding validation constraints in data POJO class. It is supported in all ItemReader implementation classes in jberet-support module.

In each ItemReader class, if the configured beanType for the incoming data is a custom POJO (i.e., not java.util.Map, or java.util.List, for example, Person, StockTrade, Company), the reader class will invoke javax.validation.Validator#validate to perform the validation.

Any validation constraint failure will cause the reader to throw javax.validation.ConstraintViolationException, a subclass of java.lang.RuntimeException and javax.validation.ValidationException.

The following POJO class, StockTrade, demonstrates certain usage of Bean Validation constraints:

public class StockTrade implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -55209987994863611L;

    @NotNull
    @Past
    Date date;

    @NotNull
    @Size(min = 3, max = 5)
    @Pattern(regexp = "^([0-9]|0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9]$")
    String time;

    @NotNull
    @Max(1000)
    @Min(1)
    double open;

    @Max(1000)
    @Min(1)
    double high;

    @Max(1000)
    @Min(1)
    double low;

    @Max(1000)
    @Min(1)
    double close;

    @NotNull
    @DecimalMin("100")
    @DecimalMax("9999999999")
    double volume;

    ...

Dependencies

All ItemReader implementation classes in jberet-support module has a compile-time dependency on Bean Validation API:

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
    <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
    <version>${version.javax.validation}</version>
</dependency>

If a batch application triggers bean validation at runtime, then the following runtime dependencies are also required:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
    <version>${version.org.hibernate.validator}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.spec.javax.el</groupId>
    <artifactId>jboss-el-api_3.0_spec</artifactId>
    <version>${version.org.jboss.spec.javax.el.jboss-el-api_3.0_spec}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
    <version>${version.org.glassfish.javax.el}</version>
</dependency>

Bean Validation may not be triggered when running a batch application, because

• item reader beanType property is not a custom POJO type;
• bean validation is disabled in job xml for a particular ItemReader class.

Disable Bean Validation

Bean validation is enabled by default for all ItemReader classes in jberet-support. It can be turned off by setting batch property skipBeanValidation to true on reader element in job.xml (its default value is false, which means bean validation is on):

<property name="skipBeanValidation" value="true"/>

Performing bean validation in your batch application has its performance overhead. So if processing speed and performance is high priority, consider disabling bean validation on ItemReader artifacts, or set item reader beanType property to a non-POJO type.