Spring MVC Based Rest Services Validations for request body - spring

Question

I have Rest Controller in my application which has the code snippet like below:-
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/api/v1/user")
public class UserRestControllerV1 {
#PostMapping("")
public Response registerUser(#RequestBody #Valid final Request<UserDto> request,
final HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest,
BindingResult result){
Response response = new Response(request);
if(result.hasErrors()){
response.setData(new String("Error"));
}else {
response.setData(new String("Test"));
}
return response;
}
The Request Class:-
#JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class Request<T> {
#JsonProperty(value = "co-relation-id")
private String coRelationID;
#NotNull(message = "The request body should be present")
private T data;
/*
..... various other fields
Getters / Setters
*/
}
The UserDto Class :-
public class UserDto {
#NotNull(message = "The username should not be null")
private String username;
#NotNull(message = "The password should not be null")
#JsonIgnore
private String password;
/*
..... various other fields
Getters / Setters
*/
}
Issue : I am having issues with my validations here. The field private T data in the request class gets validated but the fields inside T - in the case UserDto are not getting validated.
So I need to know the approach or code snippet to achieve this.
I have tried configuring the hibernate validator bean in the configuration but it is of no help in the scenario

Answer 1

#Valid constraint will instruct the Bean Validator to delve to the type of its applied property and validate all constraints found there.
#JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class Request<T> {
#JsonProperty(value = "co-relation-id")
private String coRelationID;
//#NotNull(message = "The request body should be present")
#Valid
private T data;
/*
..... various other fields
Getters / Setters
*/
}