Software Development

JSF – Managed Bean Custom Validation Methods

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This post demonstrates how to create custom validation methods in the same @ManagedBean class and use them accordingly.

Requirements

Stuff used in this post.

  • JSF 2.2
    • javax.faces-2.2.8.jar
  • JDK 8

Custom Validation Methods

These are the custom validation methods and their purposes are as follow for our example:

  • validateProductCode
    • A valid product code is required must start with 001-
  • validateProductName
    • A valid product name is required and must not exceed 100 characters.

These methods declare a particular set of parameters in a specific order so that they can be invoked by the JSF framework correctly.

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Validation Method Parameters

A custom validation method can have any method name as long it follows these rules.

  1. The method must be public and non-static
  2. The method returns void
  3. The method has 3 parameters in a particular order declared in its method signature
    • public void validationAnyNameMethod(FacesContext context,
      UIComponent component, Object value)
  4. The method must declare that it throws ValidatorException (or not)

For instance,

Sample Codes

Managed bean – ProductWithCustomValidationForm

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New Product Page – Request

This is our input page where users enter and save information for new 001- products.

Second Page – Response

This page displays the newly added product details.

Testing

With Validation Errors

Here we provided a product code that does not start with 001- and a product name that is too long.

Request Page

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Response

Without Validation Errors

This time we provided a product code that starts with 001- and a product name with valid number of characters.

Request Page

Response

Using JSF Validator Interface instead

Each of these validation method can be converted into a class that implements the javax.faces.validator.Validator interface.

The reason why our validation methods have a specific set of parameters in a specific order is because JSF invokes them knowing that these methods are implementations of abstract method in javax.faces.validator.Validator.

We’ll cover that interface in part two of this post.

References

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