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Validations in Spring Boot

The document discusses data validation in Spring Boot applications, highlighting the integration of Hibernate Validator for data integrity. It lists essential built-in annotations for validation and outlines various approaches, including validation in database entities and REST APIs. The document emphasizes the ease of implementing validations while noting potential complexities.

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Validations

Spring Boot

In every application we build it’s always necessary

to validate data, and with Spring Boot, it got you
covered!

@mauricioperez
@mauricioperez

Validations in
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Spring Boot
When validating data in a Spring Boot application,
we can reach it from different approaches. But
the main character comes when we integrate this
dependecy into our pom.xml

You can get this dependency from the Spring

Starter.
Also remember that by integrating this
dependency, you are using the de-facto
hibernate validations from hibernate.validator
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Hibernate for
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validating??

Yeah you heard it right! Hibernate also helps us to

validate data and not merely treating it with the
persistence stuff it normally offers.

The Hibernate’s team has built a strong library

where we can reach through the annotations
offered just to implement into our code and they
will run and execute like magic in regards of the
data integrity.

But yes, when we want to implement that kind of

persistence stuff, you know it already: just
implement Spring Data JPA module in your
Spring Boot project, and you are good to go!
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Annotations to
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validate date
Here you have the most important built-in
annotations that you can leverage for your
project:

1. @NotNull
2. @AssertTrue
3. @Size
4. @Min
5. @Max
6. @Email
7. @NotEmpty
8. @NotBlank
9. @Positive and @PositiveOrZero
10. @Past and @PastOrPresent
11. @Future and @FutureOrPresent
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Approaches of
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validation
1. In a database entity and you want to validate
each field

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Approaches of
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validation

Also we can apply it to data structures in

order for whenever we want to add
specific data into a list, for instance, all of
the data inside will be hence, validated.

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A special
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approach

And for those who might asked: “What

about REST APIs?” Yes I got you covered
too! And here you can validate through a
Controller approach, but first you have to
mix the validation via the component or
entity and you have to add in the
controller’s parameter’s method a @Valid
annotation before the instance that will
be receiving the data in the form of the
entity coming from the request.
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A special
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approach

For instance, let’s say you want to add a

user, but you have your user’s entity
covered with a lot of constraints; once
you get the body’s request coming with
data aimed to be filled to the user’s entity
you apply the following movement:
Thank you!

@mauricioperez