I came across an interesting problem recently and could not find any information about it in the docs.

Basically I had an @AssertTrue validation method that was causing a lazy collection to become initialized , which then resulted in a "collection [my.object.collection] was not processed by flush" assertion failure. I could not find anything about this in the docs and I am not sure if this is expected behavior, or if there is something else going on in my application.

I could not find any documentation on this topic, if this is expected behavior I think it would be a good idea to include it in the reference documentation for hibernate validator, because it results in hard to find bugs.

Stuart

It look like this is solved since Hibernate 3.2.1 :
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1663
which Hibernate version are you using?

I think this is a different issue, and I tried it with two different versions (the current stable and CR releases). In hindsight I really should have posted it in the hibernate validator forum, I will post it there.