Validations In Spring Boot

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Hello! In this article, I’m gonna cover validations in Spring Boot. The only requirement for you to understand this topic is to be able to create controllers in Spring Boot and of course, be comfortable with Java.

You can find source code for examples here: https://github.com/kamer/validations-in-spring-boot

Why do we need both client-side and server-side validation?

In web applications, we generally use both client-side and server-side validations for form data or any other data that goes to server-side. Why do we bother with both of them?

Because we use client-side validation to validate and respond quickly. For instance, we have a field that accepts phone number. So, first of all, we should prevent user to type any character other than numbers. Also, we have a pattern that validates phone number. If we control and reject any incorrect input value on the client-side we eliminate the time for this request to go server-side and get rejected. So we can say that client-side validations are mostly used to give user fast feedback and validate syntactical things. (e.g. pattern, length, characters)

But client-side validations can be considered useless since they can be easily…