Beans Validation Custom ConstraintValidator not being called

[marcusdidiusfalco]

Hello,

I am experimenting with Beans Validation

and my custom ConstraintValidator is never being called during JPA persisting.

I am using Wildfly 8.2

@Constraint(validatedBy = AdressValidator.class)

@Target({ ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE })

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)

public @interface ValidAddress {

    String message() default "muss komplett gefüllt oder leer sein";

    Class<?>[]groups() default {};

    Class<? extends Payload>[]payload() default {};

}

public class AdressValidator implements ConstraintValidator<ValidAddress, Adress> {

    @Override

    public void initialize(ValidAddress arg0) {

    }

    @Override

    public boolean isValid(Adress adresse, ConstraintValidatorContext validationContext) {

        System.out.println(" Validation -------------- Adress " + adresse.toString());

        if (adresse == null)

            return true;

        if (adresse.getTown() == null && adresse.getZip() == null && adresse.getStreet() == null)

            return true;

        if (adresse.getTown() != null && adresse.getZip() != null && adresse.getStreet() != null)

            return true;

        return false;

    }

}

@Embeddable

@ValidAddress

public class Adress {

    private String street;

    private String town;

    private String zip;

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@Entity

@NamedQueries({ @NamedQuery(name = "Employee.findAll", query = "SELECT e FROM Employee e") })

public class Employee extends GeneratedLongIdEntity {

    public final static String FIND_ALL = "Employee.findAll";

    @NotNull

    @Size(min=2, max=50)

    private String firstName;

    @NotNull

    @Size(min=2, max=50)

    private String lastName;

    @ValidAddress

    private Adress adress;

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@Test

    public void transientValidation() {

	Adress adress = new Adress(null, "Frankfurt", null);
	Employee employee = new Employee();
	employee.setFirstName("Marcus");
	employee.setLastName("Didius");
	employee.setAdress(adress);
	try {
		employeDAO.persist(employee);
	} catch (Exception e) {
		assertTrue(ExceptionUtil.isConstraintViolationException(e));
	}
	assertEquals(0, employeDAO.findAll().size());

    }

This test fails, the employee is persisted in the DB, and isValid is never being called.