Validator auto discovery not working for Spring Data Rest [DATAREST-524]

Daniel Moses opened DATAREST-524 and commented

See documentation
http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/2.2.2.RELEASE/reference/html/#validation-chapter

Discovery should happen with Validator Prefix. Add a Validator bean to the context and notice that it does not get auto-detected. Manual wiring still works. Here is an example validator that will not work if included in the example Spring boot project:

@Component("beforeCreatePersonValidator")
public class BeforeCreatePersonValidator implements Validator {
    @Override
    public boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) {
        return Person.class.equals(clazz);
    }
        @Override
    public void validate(Object target, Errors errors) {
        errors.reject("TESTING");
    }
}

See problem as reported:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24318405/spring-data-rest-validator

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