bean validation

[trunikov.dmitry.trunikov.zoral.com.ua]

Hi ALL :)

I need in your advice how to solve following trouble.

There is a bean User which contains two properties passwd and passwd2.
There is a form which is used to manage user properties. This form, among other options, allows to change user password. During form submit an application has to check these properties (passwd and passwd2) on an equality.

I run into a challenge how to do that validation. I can't use a simple Seam (or JSF) custom validator as it accepts only one value for checking (Is it true?). I can't use application level validation (in action method) as the bean User is EJB entity and it will be saved in a database at the end of request/transaction in any case. In other words application-level validation has influence on navigation only.

I wrote a simple Hibernate bean validator. Unfortunatelly it just throws exception (if validation fails) and that exception is displayed on Seam debug page.
So please advice me any solution(s).

Thanks in advance.

[asavitsky]

Use application-level validation, in combination with manual flush - this way, the bean will be saved only if you explicitly ask for it via em.flush().

[trunikov.dmitry.trunikov.zoral.com.ua]

Hi Alex!

Thank you for your quick reply. Actually at present I already use your solution. But I think that it is a bit cumbersome. IMHO the best solution is usage a Hibernate bean level validator but as I can see Seam is not able to catch and process exception thrown by the validator and show global error message.

Hi ALL! Do you know other solution(s)?

[accless]

i encountered the same problem. Hibernate offers bean-level validation. But this feature isnt properly integrated/supported in SEAM (especially with the frontend).
Therefore, we have to live with the application-level validation.

Greetings

AccLess

[olibutzki.oliver_libutzki.gmx.de]

This topic is more than one year old... but it looks like the problem still exists. Just look at my thread: http://seamframework.org/Community/BeanValidationError

Does anyone have a solution?