Hi guys,
I'm running Hibernate 4.2.0.final and jpa and I'm trying to validate a String field in a class thats annotated with @NotNull.
The ValidatorImpl class checks to see if validation is required by calling isReachable on JpaTraversableResolver. However the resolver does a check that the field is loaded which comes back false and the validation is skipped.
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong here. I would expect the field to be loaded if it isn't already??

The idea is that if the field is persisted, but not loaded there is no need to load it. The assumption is that a persistent field has passed validation and there is no need to access/load from the db.
That said, can you provide the annotated classes and some more context around your usecase? Are you using byte code enhanced classes? I am a little surprised that a string is lazy loaded.

--Hardy

Thanks for the reply hardy. Turns out that it was a bug in my boss's openjpa plugin. When the field was loaded if it was null the bit wasn't set to say that it was loaded thus was never validated.
Easy fix.
Thanks for your help