Spring-Boot How to properly inject javax.validation.Validator
You need to declare a bean of type LocalValidatorFactoryBean like this: <bean id=”validator” class=”org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean”/> in XML or @Bean public javax.validation.Validator localValidatorFactoryBean() { return new LocalValidatorFactoryBean(); } in Java Config. Edit: It is important to understand that if JPA is being used and is backed by Hibernate, then Hibernate will try to automatically validate your Beans … Read more