[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (HV-265) Constraints not loaded consistently for inherited classes

Constraints not loaded consistently for inherited classes --------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-265 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-265 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Components: mapping Affects Versions: 4.0.0.GA Environment: Win XP, Sun Java 1.6 Reporter: Jaro Kuruc Assignee: Hardy Ferentschik Fix For: 4.0.2 Attachments: hibernate-validator-tests.zip, org.hibernate.validator.InheritanceMappingsTest.txt, stdout.txt Hi, please find attached project demonstrating inconsistency in loading constraints when using annotations vs. XML mappings. This is sometimes causing that validator does not validate field 'detail.competition.name' in org.hibernate.validator.xml.Competition class. The test demonstrates 3 cases: 1. Using default configuration on top of annotated beans - works as expected 2. Using explicit configuration mappings on top of annotated beans - works as expected 3. Using explicit configuration mappings on top of non-annotated beans - does not work as expected The third case works only if both subclasses of org.hibernate.validator.xml.Competition (org.hibernate.validator.xml.PersonCompetition and org.hibernate.validator.xml.TeamCompetition) are defined in mappings file as beans, even though they are not adding any new fields to validate. The problem is that in this case, the field they inherited is ignored by validator and not validated.