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How can I specify the Hibernate "@Pattern" annotation using a regular expression from a .properties file or database

The situation . I would like to perform Hibernate Validation based on user properties (to allow different validation rules for input based on user account information). I think it should be possible to use a .properties file to specify a specific regular expression, but I cannot figure out what is wrong:

My current method of specifying a regular expression checks this regular expression from a constant in a specific interface file (so that everything is together) and inserts it as a constant into the annotation @Pattern()for each variable - for example, for a variable workPhone:

@Column(name = "WORK_PHONE")
@NotEmpty(message = "{ContactInfo.workPhone.notEmpty}")
@Pattern(regexp = PHONE_NUMBER_PATTERN_SL, message = "{ContactInfo.workPhone.regexp.msg}")
@Size(max = 10, message = "{ContactInfo.workPhone.size}")
protected String                workPhone;

... where the regular expression is stored in static final String PHONE_NUMBER_PATTERN_SL, and all calls {ContactInfo.workPhone...}come from the .properties file:

ContactInfo.workPhone.notEmpty=Please enter your phone number.
ContactInfo.workPhone.regexp.msg=Invalid characters entered in phone. Use this format XXX-XXX-XXXX.
ContactInfo.workPhone.size=Phone can not be longer than 10 digits.

Unfortunately, this layout makes the validation template system-wide (compiled), because I cannot figure out how to change it for another user in another company, location, employment, etc. To make it possible to differentiate based on this information, I would also like to save the regular expression in the properties file, and I am trying to include it this way:

ContactInfo.workPhone.regexp=\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}

including the link in the annotations from the third line in the first code list:

@Pattern(regexp = "{ContactInfo.workPhone.regexp}", message = "{ContactInfo.workPhone.regexp.msg}")

Then I turned off the property files for different cases, for example, to allow / require a phone number format other than US

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String dynamicPattern = ...;

ConstraintMapping mapping = new ConstraintMapping();
mapping.type( ContactInfo.class )
    .property( "workPhone", FIELD )
    .constraint( new PatternDef().regexp( dynamicPattern ) );

HibernateValidatorConfiguration config = 
    Validation.byProvider( HibernateValidator.class ).configure();
config.addMapping( mapping );

Validator validator = config.buildValidatorFactory().getValidator();
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