<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Gunnar Morling <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gunnar@hibernate.org" target="_blank">gunnar@hibernate.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">If not that, what else would you consider as a cycle in the context of group sequence definitions then?<div><br></div>This sequence definition here says: &quot;validate TimeConsumingChecks *before<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">*</span> TestEntity&quot; and &quot;validate TimeConsumingChecks <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">*</span>after<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">*</span> TestEntity&quot;, aborting after the first group found with violated constraints. There&#39;s no way to implement this.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not saying it makes sense but I could imagine validating TimeConsumingChecks then TestEntity then TimeConsumingChecks again.<br><br></div><div>If we consider this a cyclic dependency, then the test is indeed valid. The name is not very descriptive but it&#39;s not wrong either.<br><br>-- <br></div><div>Guillaume<br></div></div></div></div>