Class AbstractEmailValidator<A extends Annotation>

java.lang.Object
org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.AbstractEmailValidator<A>
All Implemented Interfaces:
jakarta.validation.ConstraintValidator<A,CharSequence>
Direct Known Subclasses:
EmailValidator, EmailValidator

public class AbstractEmailValidator<A extends Annotation> extends Object implements jakarta.validation.ConstraintValidator<A,CharSequence>
Checks that a given character sequence (e.g. 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, Guillaume Smet
  • Constructor Details

    • AbstractEmailValidator

      public AbstractEmailValidator()
  • Method Details

    • isValid

      public boolean isValid(CharSequence value, jakarta.validation.ConstraintValidatorContext context)
      Specified by:
      isValid in interface jakarta.validation.ConstraintValidator<A extends Annotation,CharSequence>