JSF 2.3+
If you’re already on JSF 2.3 or newer, and want to inject CDI-supported artifacts via e.g. @EJB, @PersistenceContext or @Inject, then simply add managed=true to the @FacesValidator annotation to make it CDI-managed.
@FacesValidator(value="emailExistValidator", managed=true)
JSF 2.2-
If you’re not on JSF 2.3 or newer yet, then you basically need to make it a managed bean. Use Spring’s @Component, CDI’s @Named or JSF’s @ManagedBean instead of @FacesValidator in order to make it a managed bean and thus eligible for dependency injection.
E.g., assuming that you want to use CDI’s @Named:
@Named
@ApplicationScoped
public class EmailExistValidator implements Validator {
// ...
}
You also need to reference it as a managed bean by #{name} in EL instead of as a validator ID in hardcoded string. Thus, so
<h:inputText ... validator="#{emailExistValidator.validate}" />
instead of
<h:inputText ... validator="emailExistValidator" />
or
<f:validator binding="#{emailExistValidator}" />
instead of
<f:validator validatorId="emailExistValidator" />
For EJBs there’s a workaround by manually grabbing it from JNDI, see also Getting an @EJB in @FacesConverter and @FacesValidator.
If you happen to use JSF utility library OmniFaces, since version 1.6 it adds transparent support for using @Inject and @EJB in a @FacesValidator class without any additional configuration or annotations. See also the CDI @FacesValidator showcase example.
See also:
- CDI Injection into a FacesConverter
- What’s new in JSF 2.2 – Injection