How can I customize the Validator for Hibernate Validator's method validation with Seam?

Question

I'm using Hibernate Validator and added some custom validation annotations, resource bundle location and a custom message interpolator. This is all done by customizing the Validator at bootstrapping time.

Now I'm trying to validate methods, but of course I don't get my nicely configured Validator, since the standard Validator is injected for @AutoValidating.

How can I customize the Validator within Seam Validation?

Here's how I create the Validator:

public static javax.validation.Validator getBeanValidator(final Locale locale,
    final ResourceBundle... resourceBundles) {
  HibernateValidatorConfiguration configuration = Validation.byProvider(HibernateValidator.class).configure();
  FallbackResourceBundleLocator resourceBundleLocator = new FallbackResourceBundleLocator(
      configuration.getDefaultResourceBundleLocator(), resourceBundles);
  configuration.messageInterpolator(new FieldMessageInterpolator(locale, resourceBundleLocator));
  javax.validation.ValidatorFactory validatorFactory = configuration.buildValidatorFactory();
  return validatorFactory.getValidator();
}

Gunnar Gunnar · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-04T21:23:53

You could try to configure the default validator using META-INF/validation.xml, which is the validator used by Seam Validation.

Alternatively you could create your own interceptor based on the one from Seam Validation, and use your custom configured Validator there.

How can I customize the Validator for Hibernate Validator's method validation with Seam?

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