Hi.

I want to acces the value of my properties length from the mapping file to implement some prevalidation before persist my entities.
The goal is to check input length before a call to save(...) or update(...) to avoid a Hibernate exception and give to the web app the max length for input fields.

I try to have a look on the ClassMetadata but i couldn't find a way to get the length attribute value.

Is there a way to do this ?

Thanks
Christophe.

Column than has a length field.

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I found the way to get this value thru the Configuration object...

But i'm usign Hibernate thru jboss .har packaging, so i'm not able to acces the Configuration object as it is created by the Hibernate MBean and not available anymore after the creation of the SessionFactory.

So i'm still stunk.

Thanks.

Than you should rate :)

Doesn't getSession().getSessionFactory().getClassMetadata(persistentClass)

provide a hook into the Hib persistentClass?? Just guessing here though.