Add spring.validation.adapt-constraint-violations property

Closes spring-projectsGH-43881

Signed-off-by: Yanming Zhou <[email protected]>

buildSrc/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/build/context/properties/DocumentConfigurationProperties.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2024 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ private void corePrefixes(Config config) {
 		config.accept("spring.ssl");
 		config.accept("spring.task");
 		config.accept("spring.threads");
+		config.accept("spring.validation");
 		config.accept("spring.mandatory-file-encoding");
 		config.accept("info");
 		config.accept("spring.output.ansi.enabled");

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/validation/ValidationAutoConfiguration.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2023 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnResource;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.SearchStrategy;
+import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
 import org.springframework.boot.validation.MessageInterpolatorFactory;
 import org.springframework.boot.validation.beanvalidation.FilteredMethodValidationPostProcessor;
 import org.springframework.boot.validation.beanvalidation.MethodValidationExcludeFilter;
@@ -44,11 +45,13 @@
  *
  * @author Stephane Nicoll
  * @author Madhura Bhave
+ * @author Yanming Zhou
  * @since 1.5.0
  */
 @AutoConfiguration
 @ConditionalOnClass(ExecutableValidator.class)
 @ConditionalOnResource(resources = "classpath:META-INF/services/jakarta.validation.spi.ValidationProvider")
+@EnableConfigurationProperties(ValidationProperties.class)
 @Import(PrimaryDefaultValidatorPostProcessor.class)
 public class ValidationAutoConfiguration {
 
@@ -68,11 +71,13 @@ public static LocalValidatorFactoryBean defaultValidator(ApplicationContext appl
 	@Bean
 	@ConditionalOnMissingBean(search = SearchStrategy.CURRENT)
 	public static MethodValidationPostProcessor methodValidationPostProcessor(Environment environment,
-			ObjectProvider<Validator> validator, ObjectProvider<MethodValidationExcludeFilter> excludeFilters) {
+			ObjectProvider<Validator> validator, ObjectProvider<MethodValidationExcludeFilter> excludeFilters,
+			ValidationProperties validationProperties) {
 		FilteredMethodValidationPostProcessor processor = new FilteredMethodValidationPostProcessor(
 				excludeFilters.orderedStream());
 		boolean proxyTargetClass = environment.getProperty("spring.aop.proxy-target-class", Boolean.class, true);
 		processor.setProxyTargetClass(proxyTargetClass);
+		processor.setAdaptConstraintViolations(validationProperties.getMethod().isAdaptConstraintViolations());
 		processor.setValidatorProvider(validator);
 		return processor;
 	}

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/validation/ValidationProperties.java

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2012-2025 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.validation;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
+
+/**
+ * Configuration properties for validation.
+ *
+ * @author Yanming Zhou
+ * @since 3.5.0
+ */
+@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.validation")
+public class ValidationProperties {
+
+	private Method method = new Method();
+
+	public Method getMethod() {
+		return this.method;
+	}
+
+	public void setMethod(Method method) {
+		this.method = method;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Method validation properties.
+	 */
+	public static class Method {
+
+		/**
+		 * Whether to adapt ConstraintViolations to MethodValidationResult.
+		 */
+		private boolean adaptConstraintViolations;
+
+		public boolean isAdaptConstraintViolations() {
+			return this.adaptConstraintViolations;
+		}
+
+		public void setAdaptConstraintViolations(boolean adaptConstraintViolations) {
+			this.adaptConstraintViolations = adaptConstraintViolations;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+}

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/validation/ValidationAutoConfigurationTests.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2023 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 import org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean;
 import org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.MethodValidationPostProcessor;
 import org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.OptionalValidatorFactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.validation.method.MethodValidationException;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@
  *
  * @author Stephane Nicoll
  * @author Phillip Webb
+ * @author Yanming Zhou
  */
 class ValidationAutoConfigurationTests {
 
@@ -207,6 +209,18 @@ void validationCanBeConfiguredToUseJdkProxy() {
 			});
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void validationCanBeConfiguredToAdaptConstraintViolations() {
+		this.contextRunner.withUserConfiguration(AnotherSampleServiceConfiguration.class)
+			.withPropertyValues("spring.validation.method.adapt-constraint-violations=true")
+			.run((context) -> {
+				assertThat(context.getBeansOfType(Validator.class)).hasSize(1);
+				AnotherSampleService service = context.getBean(AnotherSampleService.class);
+				service.doSomething(42);
+				assertThatExceptionOfType(MethodValidationException.class).isThrownBy(() -> service.doSomething(2));
+			});
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 	void userDefinedMethodValidationPostProcessorTakesPrecedence() {