[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-252) HV with XML config tells me "Invalid property path." even though I know there is such a property.

HV with XML config tells me "Invalid property path." even though I know there is such a property. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-252 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-252 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Components: engine Affects Versions: 4.0.0.GA Environment: Java 6 on Mac OSX 10.5.8 Reporter: Ed Burns Attachments: integration-test-servlet.war Original Estimate: 1 week Remaining Estimate: 1 week I will attach a test war, but here is a summary of the problem. I am configuring my BV with the following XML <?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'UTF-8\'?> <constraint-mappings xmlns=\"http://jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/mapping\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/mapping validation-mapping-1.0.xsd\"> <default-package>integration_test_servlet</default-package> <bean class=\"Person\" ignore-annotations=\"true\"> <field name=\"firstName\" ignore-annotations=\"true\"> <constraint annotation=\"javax.validation.constraints.NotNull\" /> </field> <field name=\"lastName\" ignore-annotations=\"true\"> <constraint annotation=\"javax.validation.constraints.NotNull\" /> </field> <getter name=\"listOfString\" ignore-annotations=\"true\"> <constraint annotation=\"javax.validation.constraints.NotNull\" /> </getter> </bean> </constraint-mappings> My POJO looks like this: package integration_test_servlet; import java.util.List; import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull; public class Person { @NotNull private String firstName; public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public void setFirstName(String firstName) { this.firstName = firstName; } @NotNull private String lastName; public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public void setLastName(String lastName) { this.lastName = lastName; } private List<String> listOfString; @NotNull public List<String> getListOfString() { return listOfString; } public void setListOfString(List<String> listOfString) { this.listOfString = listOfString; } } And I'm trying to validate like this: List<String> listOfString = new ArrayList<String>(); listOfString.add("one"); listOfString.add("two"); listOfString.add("three"); Set<ConstraintViolation<Person>> violations = beanValidator.validateValue(Person.class, "listOfString", listOfString); But this causes the following exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid property path. There is no property listOfString in entity integration_test_servlet.Person The same test, but with no XML configuration, relying instead on the Annotations, works ok.