Hi Matt,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Matt Benson <mbenson@apache.org> wrote:

I would challenge
BootstrapConfigurationWithValidatedExecutableTypesContainingNONETest
as defying the specification. The current version says at
http://beanvalidation.org/2.0/spec/#integration-general-executable and
in the code for ExecutableType that NONE is essentially ignored in the
presence of other types (and effectively, always). I see nothing to
dictate that NONE should be treated differently in the XML descriptor
than elsewhere.

Outch, this one is an old one :).

The spec is very clear about the behavior of @ValidateOnExecution:
"A list containing NONE and other types of executables is equivalent to a list containing the types of executables without NONE."

Same in the @ExecutableType javadoc:
    /**
    * None of the executables.
    * <p>
    * Note that this option is equivalent to an empty list of executable types
    * and is present to improve readability. If {@code NONE} and other types of executables
    * are present in a list, {@code NONE} is ignored.
    */

I can't find anything specific to the XML configuration so I suppose we should follow the same rule.

@Gunnar does old Gunnar have any recollection of what young Gunnar did back at the time?

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Guillaume