Hibernate Validator roadmap
Hibernate Validator roadmap
Hibernate Validator is community driven and as such the roadmap constantly evolves to reflect the users needs. You can find a fine grained roadmap in our issue tracker, but this page is a good starting point to see where we are going.
Hibernate Validator 5.1
- Performance
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Improving on the performance of 5.0.1.Final
- Configurable value extraction SPI
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Introducing ValueExtractor interface (HV-819)
Hibernate Validator 5.2
- Java 8 support (HV-825)
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Make use of type annotations
Allow constraints to be specified several times
Make use of new reflection API to share code between annotation processor and engine - OSGi
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Expose Validator as OSGi service (HV-570)
- Automatic constraint validator discovery
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Offer the possibiltiy to automatically discover and add custom constraint validators (HV-828)
- Documentation
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Switch to asciidoc (HV-826)
Automatically update hibernate.org on release (HV-827) - Build
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Switch to Gradle as build tool (HV-641)
- Misc
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Integration with JavaFX (HV-653)
Introduce mechanism to order constraints (HV-462)
Better integration with ORM, especially DDL constraint generation (HV-830)
New range of Hibernate Validator specific constraints and potential dedicated constraint module (HV-553) - Internal
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Further unification of bean and method validation (HV-467)
Hibernate Validator 5.3
- Distributed resource bundles
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Abiltiy to provide resource bundle with (custom) constraint (HV-829)
- Make us of Jandex
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Provide abiltiy to retrieve metadata from Jandex index (HV-644)
- Annotation processor improvments
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Taking into account XML configuration (HV-308)
Verify group sequences (HV-455)
Verify the validity of constraint declarations (e.g. min < max for @Size) (HV-270) - Own method validation interceptor
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Create standalone interceptor using Byteman (HV-432)
