Hello,
I am considering an EntityHome extension pattern where I wrap the EntityHome-managed internal entity instance to a dynamic proxy inner class and return this from getInstance().
The intent is to intercept any calls made to the entity's property setters so I can automatically provide for annotation-driven validation at the model level; things like preemptively checking for unique values, inferring and enforcing constraints from @Column annotations etc. The dynamic proxy wrapper will have access to the persistence manager within EntityHome, which facilitates this kind of checks. I understand that Web Validation etc will offer a standard DRY alternative but I need something now, and this approach appears interesting on first thought.
Question to Seam experts: does this approach violate any apparent Seam architectural assumptions that evade me? I can see some ground for conflict with Hibernate validators if such are defined on the entity, but probably these can be worked around.
TIA for any an all pointers.
Should be ok.