[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Updated: (HV-468) Determine whether a property is indexed based on the runtime not static type

Determine whether a property is indexed based on the runtime not static type ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-468 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-468 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Components: engine Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Beta2 Reporter: Hardy Ferentschik Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik Fix For: 4.2.0.CR1 from the mailing list: {quote} there was an interesting question on the Validator forum (https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1010626&start=0) which IMO boils down to the question whether the static or the runtime type of an association should be considered when creating property paths in case of cascading validations. An example: {code} class Foo { private Collection<Bar> bar1 = new ArrayList<Bar>(); private List<Bar> bar2 = new ArrayList<Bar>(); } {code} When validating an instance of Foo (which has invalid elements in bar1/bar2) with HV, the resulting property path node for bar1 would be iterable but not indexable ("bar1[]"), while the property path node for bar2 would be iterable and indexable ("bar2[123]"). This is that way because the static type of bar1/bar2 (Collection vs. List) is considered when building the nodes, and not the runtime type (ArrayList in both cases). That said, basing the path on the runtime type instead would seem reasonable to me, too (as for instance the constraints to validate are also determined based on the runtime type of references). I scanned through the BV spec. (section 4.5) but didn't find a clear answer which approach should be followed. Are there any opinions on that? {quote}