[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HV-228) InvalidateStateException needs to show the error messages in the message when it's thrown

[Ken Egervari (JIRA)]

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Ken Egervari commented on HV-228:
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You guys don't have to stick to what's defined there... you can actually expand on it, just like your sister projects have. Hibernate provides more than JPA specifies. I don't see a problem here :)

If you ask me, standards are lame and bloated. What really matters is that people get a tool that works for them in practice. I think it's dumb to wait a for a standard that eventually adds these things in 4 years too late. EJB 3.0 anyone?

I dunno how the architecture works on your end... but from my end, this is just an exception thrown by your validator project. It really isn't possible to just add more into the toString() method? You already have an array of invalidValues[] - we can just iterate through that and print them. It's really very simple, and man... just think of the people that would LOVE you for doing this.

I think in the grand scheme of things, will make your framework 10x easier to test with, and will save people probably hours of time over the course of a long project, not to mention reducing frustration levels. This is a very, very good idea. Please find a way to implement it. Please :))))))

> InvalidateStateException needs to show the error messages in the message when it's thrown
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>                 Key: HV-228
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-228
>             Project: Hibernate Validator
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0.GA
>            Reporter: Ken Egervari
>   Original Estimate: 1 hour
>  Remaining Estimate: 1 hour
>
> I dunno if you fixed this in 4.0 releases. To make testing easier, I think the error messages should be viewable when the exception is thrown. I know it's possible to inspect the exception for these errors, but within a unit test, this is just too much work and it's annoying.
> In practice, we create all these objects and do tests. Sometimes these objects get sent to the database and are saved. 
> Now, let's say 3 validation constraints aren't met. On the outset, the developer is 100% blind and must code in a try/catch and print out the list of errors. When this happens over and over and over... it's just tedious. When a test fails because an unexpected validation exception is thrown, I don't want to have to do this - I want to instantly see what went wrong so I can make the changes to my test case and run it quickly.
> I think this change would facilitate much faster test/code cycles, and it shouldn't be hard to add in. 
> Thanks

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