[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-430) XML configuration does not allow configuration of public fields in superclass

XML configuration does not allow configuration of public fields in superclass ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-430 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-430 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Bug Components: engine Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Beta1 Reporter: Hardy Ferentschik Fix For: 4.2.0.CR1 The following will not work at the moment, even though the field _foo_ is public in class _A_. You will get an exception: {noformat} javax.validation.ValidationException: org.hibernate.validator.test.xml.B does not contain the fieldType foo {noformat} {code} public class A { public int foo; public int getFoo() { return foo; } public void setFoo(int foo) { this.foo = foo; } } {code} {code} public class B extends A { } {code} {code} <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>org.hibernate.validator.xml</default-package> <bean class="org.hibernate.validator.test.xml.A" ignore-annotations="true"> <field name="foo"> <constraint annotation="javax.validation.constraints.Min"> <element name="value">1</element> </constraint> </field> </bean> </constraint-mappings> {code} {code} <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>org.hibernate.validator.xml</default-package> <bean class="org.hibernate.validator.test.xml.B" ignore-annotations="true"> <field name="foo"> <constraint annotation="javax.validation.constraints.Min"> <element name="value">18</element> </constraint> </field> </bean> </constraint-mappings> {code} The problem is that XMLMappingParser uses {{Class.getDeclaredField}} instead of {{Class.getField}} to check whether a field exists. Easy to fix, but need to check against the BV spec.