[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (ANN-344) Base class validations are not over-ridden

Base class validations are not over-ridden ------------------------------------------ Key: ANN-344 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-344 Project: Hibernate Annotations Type: Improvement

Components: validator Versions: 3.2.0.cr1 Environment: hibernate 3.2 cr2 Reporter: Aseel Abbas

When the same validation annotation is applied to an over-riding method in a subclass the expected behaviour is that the validation annotation in the base class is over-ridden. Currently, both validations are executed. This severely limits the usability of the package for domain models where inheritance is used. The problem also occurs with over-riding interfaces. For example: class A { @Length (min = 0, max = 32) Integer getFoo() { return foo; } } class B extends A { @Length (min = 15, max = 20) Integer getFoo() { return super.getFoo(); } } In this case validating an instance of class B which has a foo value of 100 will result in two error messages: "foo must be between 15 and 20" and "foo must be between 0 and 32".