Pro Spring 6 with Kotlin: An In-depth Guide to Using Kotlin APIs in Spring Framework 6

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11. Validation, Formatting, and Type Conversion

Peter Späth¹  , Iuliana Cosmina², Rob Harrop³ and Chris Schaefer⁴

(1)

Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

(2)

Edinburgh, UK

(3)

Reddish, UK

(4)

Venice, FL, USA

 

In an enterprise application, validation is critical. The purpose of validation is to verify that the data being processed fulfills all predefined business requirements as well as ensure the data integrity and usefulness in other layers of the application.

In application development, data validation is always mentioned alongside conversion and formatting. The reason is that the format ...