[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-263) NullPointerException when no constraint in xml

NullPointerException when no constraint in xml ---------------------------------------------- Key: HV-263 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-263 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Components: mapping Affects Versions: 4.0.1 Environment: Linux Reporter: Michenaud Laurent Fix For: 4.1.0 In xml configuration, if you declare a bean with no constraint, a nullpointer exception occurs at validation. Configuration : <constraint-mappings xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/mapping validation-mapping-1.0.xsd" xmlns="http://jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/mapping"> <default-package>org.mypackage</default-package> <bean class="Intervention" ignore-annotations="true"> </bean> </constraint-mappings> Error at validation : Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.validator.metadata.BeanMetaDataImpl.initClassConstraints(BeanMetaDataImpl.java:417) at org.hibernate.validator.metadata.BeanMetaDataImpl.initClass(BeanMetaDataImpl.java:243) at org.hibernate.validator.metadata.BeanMetaDataImpl.createMetaData(BeanMetaDataImpl.java:238) at org.hibernate.validator.metadata.BeanMetaDataImpl.<init>(BeanMetaDataImpl.java:117) at org.hibernate.validator.metadata.BeanMetaDataImpl.<init>(BeanMetaDataImpl.java:110) at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.getBeanMetaData(ValidatorImpl.java:735) at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:202) at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:119) at com.adeuza.movalys.validation.hibernate.TestMain.main(TestMain.java:71)