Hibernate Validators not fired
I am trying to mimick the SeamSpace example to do some hibernate validator validations. Unfortunately the validations are not kicking in and I am able to save invalid data to the database. Any ideas where to look for problems?
Here's an example of a Person entity in my application with validations on firstName and lastName (Note that I had to specify @Column(nullable=false) to make the database column non null - I would have thought that specifying @NotNull would be enough. Does anyone have an explanation for that?):
@Entity
public class Person {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
@NotNull
@Length(min = 3, max = 40)
@Pattern(regex="[a-zA-Z]+", message="First name must only contain letters")
@Column(nullable=false)
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
@NotNull
@Length(min = 3, max = 40)
@Pattern(regex="[a-zA-Z]+", message="Last name must only contain letters")
@Column(nullable=false)
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
}
Here's the front-end code that sets the attributes of the Person object:
<h:form styleClass="register">
<s:validateAll>
<div class="formRow">
<h:outputLabel for="firstName">
First Name<em>*</em>
</h:outputLabel>
<h:inputText
id="firstName"
value="#{register.newPerson.firstName}"
required="true" />
<div class="validationError"><h:message for="firstName" />
</div>
</div>
...
</s:validateAll>
<div class="buttons"><h:commandButton value="Register"
action="#{register.register}" styleClass="registerButton" /></div>
</h:form>
Here's the code that persists a new Person in my RegisterAction class:
public class RegisterAction {
...
private Person newPerson = new Person();
public void register() {
...
entityManager.persist(newPerson);
...
}
}
