[OPENJPA-2398] Bean Validation: Referenced entity throws PersistenceException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.2
• Component/s: validation
• Environment: Windows 7, Eclipse Juno, Hibernate Validator 5, MySQL
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Oliver Probst
• Created: 14/Jun/13 10:41
• Updated: 14/Jun/13 12:23

Description

The descirption of Bean Validation mentions:

"Notice the use of the @Valid annotation. ... Referenced entities and collections of entities are validated separately in order to prevent circular validation."

If a referenced entity contains a constraint (e.g. @NotNull) and the owner class which references the entity does not use the @Valid constraint, the entity is validated (which is correct) but does throw a PersistenceException containing a ConstraintViolationException and not directly a ConstraintViolationException. Is this behaviour correct according to the spec?

Futhermore, the embedded entities are validated independent of a @Valid annotation, this is not correct.