Please take a look at the Hibernate JIRA issue EJB-441, seen it?
Now, please tell me if this is correct:
According to Gavin King (author of Hibernate) the JPA spec the @Column(nullable=false) is just a schema generation hint, and therefore JPA implementations should NOT use it for object level validation.
I think that means that if an entity object with a null property marked with the @Column(nullable=false) is persisted using entityManager.persist() it should crash with a java.sql.SQLException as the root exception, thrown when the "INSERT" statement failed after it was sent to the database by the JDBC driver (as it happens in EclipseLink), and not because some implementation specific mechanism "pre-validated" it and prevented it from reaching the database (as it happens in Hibernate thanks to org.hibernate.engine.Nullability.checkNullability).
Is that correct? Because I don’t know anymore!
Lets say that is correct, does that means that the following is correct too?:
Validation should be entirely the responsibility of the JSR-303, and the properties of an entity should only be checked for nullability before sending to the database if a JSR-303 implementation is there to indicate that.
Is that true? And if it is, then:
What is exactly the difference between @Basic(optional=true) and @Column(nullable=true)? What happens when this 2 are applied to the same property, but they contradict each other? (As in : @Basic(optional=false) and @Column(nullable=true) or in @Basic(optional=true) and @Column(nullable=false)
I could not find a statisfactory answer in the spec documentation, would anyone be so kind as to resolve this issue? Because it Hibernate Forums they have decided that the way to deal with this inconsistencies and contradictions in Hibernate and in the JPA standard is to plain ignore me since May of 2009.
As you can see I tried to raise the issue with 2 JIRAS, forum post and easy to reproduce unit-tests, but nothing seems to work… what should I do then?
