Spring Boot validation - one from two not null

JackTheKnife :

I'm trying to validate if one of two fields are not null in Spring Boot?

I have set that in the method class for the main object:

@NotNull(message = "Username field is required")
private String username;

@NotNull(message = "Email field is required")
private String email;

but that will require to have both fields not null. Then I went with custom validation described here https://lmonkiewicz.com/programming/get-noticed-2017/spring-boot-rest-request-validation/ but I wasn't able to get that example to work. I have to stuck on

User class declaration:

@CombinedNotNull(fields = {"username","email"})
public class User implements {

    private long id = 0L;
    @NotNull(message = "First name field is required")
    private String firstName;

    @NotNull(message = "Last name field is required")
    private String lastName;

    private String username;
    private String email;

    @NotNull(message = "Status field is required")
    private String status;

    ...all methods here...
    ...setters and getters...

}

CombibnedNotNull class:

@Documented
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({ TYPE, ANNOTATION_TYPE })
@Constraint(validatedBy = userValidator.class)
public @interface CombinedNotNull {
        String message() default "username or email is required";
        Class<?>[] groups() default { };
        Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default { };
}

userValidator class:

@Component
public class userValidator implements ConstraintValidator<CombinedNotNull, User> {

    @Override
    public void initialize(final CombinedNotNull combinedNotNull) {
        fields = combinedNotNull.fields();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isValid(final User user, final ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
        final BeanWrapperImpl beanWrapper = new BeanWrapperImpl(user);

        for (final String f : fields) {
            final Object fieldValue = beanWrapper.getPropertyValue(f);

            if (fieldValue == null) {
                return false;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }
}

Is there any other way to get this done or should I go with the "complex" example from that page?

LppEdd :

I'll try to implement it for you (even if I'm without an IDE).
Inside ConstraintValidator#initialize you can get a hold of the configured fields' names which cannot be null.

@Override
public void initialize(final CombinedNotNull combinedNotNull) {
    fields = combinedNotNull.fields();
}

Inside ConstraintValidator#isValid you can use those fields' names to check the Object fields.

@Override
public boolean isValid(final Object value, final ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
    final BeanWrapperImpl beanWrapper = new BeanWrapperImpl(value);

    for (final String f : fields) {
       final Object fieldValue = beanWrapper.getPropertyValue(f);

       if (fieldValue == null) {
          return false;
       }
    }

    return true;
}

Annotation:

@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({ TYPE, ANNOTATION_TYPE })
@Constraint(validatedBy = CombinedNotNullValidator.class)
public @interface CombinedNotNull {
   String message() default "username or email is required";
   Class<?>[] groups() default { };
   Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default { };

   /** Fields to validate against null. */
   String[] fields() default { };
}

The annotation could be applied as

@CombinedNotNull(fields = {
      "fieldName1",
      "fieldName2"
})
public class MyClassToValidate { ... }

To learn how to create a Class-level constraint annotation, refer always to the official documentation. Docs

Spring Boot validation - one from two not null

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