Non bean property throwing Bean property is not readable or has an invalid getter method - spring-boot

Question

So my issue is a bit different from others. The error that it is throwing is not a field name but rather the input in a form. I've never encountered this error before
Error. The contents of '' is what I key for password
org.springframework.beans.NotReadablePropertyException: Invalid
property 'Yijian#123' of bean class [com.Alex.UserPackage.User]: Bean
property 'Yijian#123' is not readable or has an invalid getter method:
Does the return type of the getter match the parameter type of the
setter? at
org.springframework.beans.AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.getPropertyValue(AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java:622)
~[spring-beans-5.2.7.RELEASE.jar:5.2.7.RELEASE] at
org.springframework.beans.AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.getPropertyValue(AbstractNestablePropertyAccessor.java:612)
~[spring-beans-5.2.7.RELEASE.jar:5.2.7.RELEASE] at
org.springframework.validation.AbstractPropertyBindingResult.getActualFieldValue(AbstractPropertyBindingResult.java:104)
~[spring-context-5.2.7.RELEASE.jar:5.2.7.RELEASE]
Entity class
#Entity
#ValidPassword
public class User {
#Pattern(regexp="[a-zA-Z]+", message = "Enter letters only!")
private String firstName;
#Pattern(regexp="[a-zA-Z]+", message = "Enter letters only!")
private String lastName;
private String password;
private String matchingPassword;
private String passportNumber;
public String getPassword() {
return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}
public String getMatchingPassword() {
return matchingPassword;
}
public void setMatchingPassword(String matchingPassword) {
this.matchingPassword = matchingPassword;
}
}
#ValidPassword custom annotation. The error started to occur after I used the getters for password and matchingPassword
private String message;
#Override
public boolean isValid(User user, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
String password = user.getPassword();
String matchingPassword = user.getMatchingPassword();
if (password== null || matchingPassword == null) {
return false;
}
System.out.println("PASSWORDS: " + password + matchingPassword);
boolean flag = Pattern.matches("^(?=.*?[A-Z])(?=.*?[a-z])(?=.*?[0-9])(?=.*?[#?!#$%^&*-]).{8,}$", password);
boolean flag1 = password.equals(matchingPassword);
if ( !flag1 ) {
message = "Passwords do not match!";
}
context.disableDefaultConstraintViolation();
context.buildConstraintViolationWithTemplate(message)
.addPropertyNode(password).addConstraintViolation();
return flag && flag1;
}
//Show default message if no special message is set
#Override
public void initialize(ValidPassword validPassword) {
message = validPassword.message();
}
Form password portion
<div class = "row">
<div class="col-sm-6 form-group">
<label>Password : </label> <Input type="password"
th:field="*{password}" th:required="required" class="form-control" />
<p th:if="${#fields.hasErrors('password')}"
th:errors="*{password}" class="alert alert-danger"></p>
</div>

Answer 1

You are passing the property value instead of the property name to addPropertyNode(password).
Replace the following:
context.buildConstraintViolationWithTemplate(message)
.addPropertyNode(password).addConstraintViolation();
with:
context.buildConstraintViolationWithTemplate(message)
.addPropertyNode("password").addConstraintViolation();