[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (ANN-344) Base class validations are not over-ridden

[Aseel A. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

Base class validations are not over-ridden
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         Key: ANN-344
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-344
     Project: Hibernate Annotations
        Type: Bug

 Environment: hibernate 3.2 cr2
    Reporter: Aseel Abbas


When the same validation annotation is applied to an over-riding method in a subclass the expected behaviour is that the validation annotation in the base class is over-ridden.  Currently, both validations are executed.   This severely limits the usability of the package for domain models where inheritance is used.

The problem also occurs with over-riding interfaces.

For example:

class A {

   @Length (min = 0, max = 32)
    Integer getFoo() {
        return foo;
    }
}

class B extends A
{
   @Length (min = 15, max = 20)
    Integer getFoo() {
        return super.getFoo();
    }
}

In this case validating an instance of class B which has a foo value of 100 will result in two error messages: "foo must be between 15 and 20"  and  "foo must be between 0 and 32".



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