Spring Hibernate validator not working but javax

Some problems with Spring validation and hibernation validator.

I am using Spring 4 and Hibernate Validator 5, my problem is the javax annotations are working correctly, but it looks like Hibernate annotations are not being called.

Here is my controller

@RequestMapping(method= RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
public void create(@RequestBody @Valid CreatePlantCommand command, BindingResult bindingResult, HttpServletResponse response){

    if (bindingResult.hasErrors()) {
        // do something
    }

    // do work

    // should set the location header on new requests
    String location = ServletUriComponentsBuilder.fromCurrentRequest()
            .pathSegment("{code}").buildAndExpand(code)
            .toUriString();

    response.setHeader("Location", location);
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

and command object

public class CreatePlantCommand {

    @NotNull
    private Integer code;

    @Length(min = 1, max = 5)
    //@Max(5)
    private String description;

    public int getCode() {
        return code;
    }

    public void setCode(int code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

NotNull and Max (his comment now) work, but Length seems to be completely ignored. If I use Size it works, if I use Hibernate annotation it is ignored.

I am using LocalValidatorFactoryBean from Spring

<bean id='validator' class='org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean'/>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Why is Hibernate validation not being applied?

EDIT

Continuing to try to understand what's going on here.

I noticed that the NotEmpty check is the only one that works. I can put it in the description field instead of submitting it and I get an error. If I put Email, CreditCard or Url on the description and send incorrect data to it, I won't get an error.

EDIT

I've created a small project demonstrating some of this behavior. This is on my bitbucket replica at https://bitbucket.org/joeyoung/hibernate-validation-problems .

The Form object has 4 public properties, two of which are commented out, which are used by the @Length and @Email validators.

public class Form {

    @Length(max=10)
    public String name;

    @Email
    public String email;

//  @Range(min=18)
//  public Integer age;

//    @CreditCardNumber
//    public String creditCard;
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

If I post this json,

{
  "name":"adafasdfasfdsafd",
  "email":"adf",
  "age":1,
  "creditCard":"123456"
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

To this controller

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/form")
public class FormController {

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = "application/json")
    public List<FieldError> submitForm(@RequestBody @Valid Form form, BindingResult result) {

        if(result.hasErrors()) {
            return result.getFieldErrors();
        }

        return null;
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

No errors are returned.

If I uncomment the @Range field and post again, I get @Email and @Range errors, not @Length.

I guess I am doing something wrong and any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Server wise, I am using WebSphere Liberty 8.5 and my server.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<server description="Default Liberty Server">
  <!-- Enable features -->
  <featureManager>
    <feature>jsp-2.2</feature>
    <feature>jndi-1.0</feature>
    <feature>jdbc-4.0</feature>
    <feature>jpa-2.0</feature>
    <feature>localConnector-1.0</feature>
    <feature>beanValidation-1.0</feature>
  </featureManager>
  <!-- To access this server from a remote client add a host attribute to the following element, e.g. host="*" -->
  <httpEndpoint id="defaultHttpEndpoint" httpPort="9080" httpsPort="9443" />
  <applicationMonitor updateTrigger="mbean" />
  <application id="problems_war_exploded" location="C:\Users\jyoung\Code\hibernate-validation-problems\target\problems-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT" name="problems_war_exploded" type="war" context-root="/hibernate-validation-problems" />
</server>