# Bean Validation Cheat Sheet — Combining Constraints

> Validation annotations can be combined in any suitable way. For instance, to specify a valid reviewRating value between 1 and 5, specify the validation like this @Min(value=), @Max(value=) BigDecimal, BigInteger, byte, short, int, long and the respective wrappers of the primitive types; Additionally

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Validation annotations can be combined in any suitable way. For instance, to specify a valid reviewRating value between 1 and 5, specify the validation like this

@Min(value=), @Max(value=)

BigDecimal, BigInteger, byte, short, int, long and the respective wrappers of the primitive types; Additionally supported by HV: any sub-type of CharSequence (the numeric value represented by the character sequence is evaluated), any sub-type of Number

Checks whether the annotated value is higher/lower than or equal to the specified minimum

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```java
import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Min;
import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Max;

public class Review {

 //Constraint: Review rating must be between 1 and 5
 @Min(1)
 @Max(5)
 private int reviewRating;

 public int getReviewRating() {
   return reviewRating;
 }

 public void setReviewRating(int reviewRating) {
   this.reviewRating = reviewRating;
}
 ...
}
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```java
import javax.validation.Valid;
import com.company.app.model.ReviewRating;

@Controller
public class ReviewController {

   ...

   @RequestMapping(value="/postReview", method=RequestMethod.POST)
   public @ResponseBody String postReview(@Valid Review review, BindingResult result,
   HttpServletResponse response){

      if(result.hasErrors()){
         String errorMessage = "";
         response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST);
         List&lt;ObjectError&gt; errors = result.getAllErrors();
         for( ObjectError e : errors){
            errorMessage+= "ERROR: " + e.getDefaultMessage();
         }
         return errorMessage;
      }
       else{
         return "Validation Successful";
      }
   }
}
```

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