org.hibernate.validator.constraints.impl
Class EmailValidator

java.lang.Object
  org.hibernate.validator.constraints.impl.EmailValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

javax.validation.ConstraintValidator<Email,java.lang.String>

public class EmailValidator
extends java.lang.Object
implements javax.validation.ConstraintValidator<Email,java.lang.String>

Checks that a given string is a well-formed email address.

The specification of a valid email can be found in RFC 2822 and one can come up with a regular expression matching all valid email addresses as per specification. However, as this article discusses it is not necessarily practical to implement a 100% compliant email validator. This implementation is a trade-off trying to match most email while ignoring for example emails with double quotes or comments.

Author:

Emmanuel Bernard, Hardy Ferentschik

Constructor Summary

EmailValidator()

Method Summary

void	initialize(Email annotation)
boolean	isValid(java.lang.String value, javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext context)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EmailValidator

public EmailValidator()

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize(Email annotation)

Specified by:

initialize in interface javax.validation.ConstraintValidator<Email,java.lang.String>

isValid

public boolean isValid(java.lang.String value,
                       javax.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext context)

Specified by:

isValid in interface javax.validation.ConstraintValidator<Email,java.lang.String>