Hibernate Validation setup problem

[joff]

Hi. I'm trying to get the Hibernate Validation annotations working in my app...

I have model objects with annotations like:

@Column()
@Length( min = 5, max = 10 )
@NotNull
private String _testField;

But my form doesn't seem to be triggering those validations, only the JSF one which specifies if the field is required or not...

form page looks like (there is a <rich:messages> component in the template..) :

<s:div id="test-field-container">
  <table class="formtable">
    <ui:decorate template="/layout/form-field.xhtml">
      <ui:define name="label">Test Field</ui:define>
      <h:inputText id="test-field-input" value="${booking.testField}" required="true">
        <rich:ajaxValidator reRender="test-field-container" event="onblur"/>
      </h:inputText>
</ui:decorate>

or with <ajax:support reRender="test-field-container" event="onblur" ajaxSingle="true" bypassUpdates="true"/> instead of the <rich:ajaxValidator../>

I have in my persistence.xml:

<persistence-unit name="AppName">
   <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
   <jta-data-source>java:/AppNameDatasource</jta-data-source>
     <properties>
       <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect"/>
       <property name="jboss.entity.manager.factory.jndi.name" value="java:/BookItEntityManagerFactory"/>
     </properties>
</persistence-unit>

and components.xml:

<persistence:managed-persistence-context 
   name="entityManager" auto-create="true"
   persistence-unit-jndi-name="java:/AppNameEntityManagerFactory"/>

The Datasource is set up via a standard JBoss -ds.xml file. I'm running Jboss 4.2.2 (but could move to 5 if I really really needed to).

I read somewhere you need a Seam-managed persistence context in order for the validations to work? Is this not set up like the above? I can run the code through a debugger, and I see the validation code isn't even being hit at all :(

Any help would be very greatly appreciated, thanks :)

[joff]

Oops, found a typo - the EntityManagerFactory actually does have the same name.

So, anyone got any ideas?

[jharting]

Have you tried enclosing your input fields with s:validate or s:validateAll instead of using rich:ajaxValidator?

[joff]

Ah yeah I didn't include the form-field.xhtml template - all the input fields have <s:validateAll> around them in that.

[joff]

Well, I found the solution..

It was because I had the validation annotations on the private fields, and those had names beginning with an underscore character (which is mandated by our code-style over here).

If I put the validation annotations on the getter for the property, it all works fine.

Sounds like a bug to me :(

[kamrul]

Trye with This process:

Enity Bean:

@Column(name = "EMAIL", length = 100)
        @Length(max = 100)
        @Email
        public String getEmail() {
                return this.email;
        }


xhtml page:

   <h:inputText id="email" value="#{famsPersonalProfile.email}">
             <s:validate propagation="none" />
    </h:inputText> 
    <rich:message for="email"></rich:message>

[kamrul]

<blockquote>
_Md. Kamruzzaman kamrul wrote on Feb 17, 2010 15:17:_<br/>

Trye with This process:

Enity Bean:

@Column(name = "EMAIL", length = 100)
        @Length(max = 100)
        @Email
        public String getEmail() {
                return this.email;
        }


xhtml page:

   <h:inputText id="email" value="#{famsPersonalProfile.email}">
             <s:validate />
    </h:inputText> 
    <rich:message for="email"></rich:message>
</blockquote>

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