[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (HHH-2852) Better error messages when schema validation fails

Better error messages when schema validation fails -------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-2852 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2852 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 3.2.0.ga Reporter: Eirik Maus Assignee: Diego Pires Plentz Fix For: 3.2.6 Error messages from Hibernate should contain sufficient amount of details to make it possible to locate the problem. Using hibernate in a large project is a mixed blessing. It does indeed save you from a lot of difficult and tedious work when everything is okay, but errors during startup are almost impossible to locate due to lack of detail. See for instance the following startup error: [blah, blah, blah .... could not start .... exception ...blah, blah, blah,...] Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'hibernateSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [applicationContext-blankett.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.HibernateException: Wrong column type: utstedt_dato, expected: date Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Wrong column type: utstedt_dato, expected: date at org.hibernate.mapping.Table.validateColumns(Table.java:251) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validateSchema(Configuration.java:1007) at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaValidator.validate(SchemaValidator.java:116) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:317) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1218) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:807) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:740) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:131) at no.bbs.common.hibernate.HibernateSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(HibernateSessionFactoryBean.java:121) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1062) ..... I have 3 different hibernate datasources, 8 different *.hbm.xml files from 5 different domain-logic modules, containing in all 9 different columns with that name. Some 15-20 people make modifications to the code base and mappings regularly. It is not so easy to find out who to ask about this problem from the error message provided. Thanks to spring I get an idea of which datasource that failed to start: it prints out which bean that failed creation and where it was defined. Still, it doesn't help me to pinpoint the problem. Why doesn't Configuration even print out which table it is trying to validate? Spending lots of time trying to track down such errors is truly a waste. All the required information was available inside hibernate at the time of the problem, only it wasn't printed out to the user. Other error messages in hibernate are sometimes poor, too, but this is probably the worst. At least Configuration must print out the following info: * table name and mapped class (fully qualified name) * column name and expected data type (as it does today) * The URL (or, at least, file name) of the mapping file defining the "problem" * ... or something else for other sources of mapping info (like annotations), I have no idea what, Also, the following should really be printed as well * actual data type found in the schema * datasource URL * datasource user name (The hibernate developers should look to tapestry for how to make deverloper-friendly error diagnostics. A lot of bad things can be (is) said about that project and its leaders, but at least they provide really really nice error messages that directly points out your error so you don't have to spend hours and hours trying to analyze/guess what and where things went wrong)