Hi,

Working with JPA/Hibernate, I have a quite big "graph" of inter-linked entity-objects, and try to save it to the database.

Calling entityManager.persist(company), I get the validation error below, but not yet able to pinpoint the exact cause of it.

The error-msg complaints abt validation on the Root object (Company),
but I suspect the error is not there, but in one of the many linked child-entities.

1. Just wondered if that is possible, or would the error-msg in that case refer to the sub-entity rather than the Root class?

2. Is there any way I can get Hibernate to tell me more specifically which class & attribute that actually fails to validate?

Best regards,
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Caused by: org.hibernate.validator.InvalidStateException: validation failed for: entity.Company
at org.hibernate.validator.event.ValidateEventListener.validate(ValidateEventListener.java:148)
at org.hibernate.validator.event.ValidateEventListener.onPreInsert(ValidateEventListener.java:172)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityInsertAction.preInsert(EntityInsertAction.java:178)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityInsertAction.execute(EntityInsertAction.java:72)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:279)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:263)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:167)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.performExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:321)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:50)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1027)
at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.flush(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:304)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator$SharedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(SharedEntityManagerCreator.java:197)
at $Proxy63.flush(Unknown Source)
at dao.CompanyDAO.saveCompany(CompanyDAO.java:211)

Followup:

Turned out the validation-error was not in an separate linked child-object, but in an "@Embedded" child-object.

Would still be helpful, if Hibernate in the error-mgs above, at least could include the NAME of the attribute that fails validation.

= FEATURE REQUEST :D