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Bean Validation Cheat Sheet — @Size

CharSequence, Collection, Map and Arrays Checks if the annotated element's size is between min and max (inclusive) Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```java import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Size; public class Message { //Constraint: Message must be at leas

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). CharSequence, Collection, Map and Arrays Checks if the annotated element's size is between min and max (inclusive) Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```java import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Size; public class Message { //Constraint: Message must be at least 10 characters long, but less than 500 @Size(min = 10, max = 500) private String message; public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } ... } ``` Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```java import javax.validation.Valid; import com.company.app.model.Message; @Controller public class MessageController { ... @RequestMapping(value="/sendMessage", method=RequestMethod.POST) public @ResponseBody String sendMessage(@Valid Message message, BindingResult result, HttpServletResponse response){ if(result.hasErrors()){ String errorMessage = ""; response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST); List<ObjectError> errors = result.getAllErrors(); for( ObjectError e : errors){ errorMessage+= "ERROR: " + e.getDefaultMessage(); } return errorMessage; } else{ return "Validation Successful"; } } } ``` Attribution: Adapted from OWASP Cheat Sheet Series under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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