Deprecate GenericValidator.GenericValidator()

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
     <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Johannes Weberhofer">InetAddressValidator does not need its instance variable, so uses a touch less memory.</action>
     <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Pick up maven-antrun-plugin version from parent POM org.apache:apache.</action>
     <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate GenericTypeValidator.GenericTypeValidator().</action>
+    <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate GenericValidator.GenericValidator().</action>
     <!-- ADD -->
     <action type="add" issue="VALIDATOR-497" dev="sjaranowski" due-to="Slawomir Jaranowski">IBANValidator: add method validate with validation status</action>
     <action type="add" dev="sebb">DomainValidatorTest: added Maven profile to simplfy execution.</action>

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/GenericValidator.java

@@ -341,8 +341,6 @@ public static boolean maxValue(final float value, final float max) {
         return value <= max;
     }
 
-    // See https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29015 WRT the "value" methods
-
     /**
      * <p>Checks if the value is less than or equal to the max.</p>
      *
@@ -354,6 +352,8 @@ public static boolean maxValue(final int value, final int max) {
         return value <= max;
     }
 
+    // See https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29015 WRT the "value" methods
+
     /**
      * <p>Checks if the value is less than or equal to the max.</p>
      *
@@ -433,4 +433,14 @@ public static boolean minValue(final long value, final long min) {
         return value >= min;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new instance.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be private in the next major version.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public GenericValidator() {
+        // empty
+    }
+
 }