Bean validation succeeded but failed on jpa merge method - jpa

Question

I want to persist an entity(MyEntity) with merge method. This entity have some beans validation.
public class MyEntity extends AbstractEntity {
#Basic(optional = false)
#Column(name = "city", length = 255, nullable = false)
#NotNull
#NotEmpty(message = "{myentity.validation.size.name}")
private String city;
private String number;
#Basic(optional = false)
#Column(name = "zipcode", length = 255, nullable = false)
#NotNull
private String zipcode;
private String phoneNumber;
#Email(message = "{myentity.validation.conform.email}")
#Size(min = 2, max = 100, message = "{myentity.validation.size.email}")
private String email;
private String website;
private String gpsLocation;
#ElementCollection()
#CollectionTable(name = "translation_poi", joinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "point_id"))
#MapKeyJoinColumn(name = "locale")
#NotEmpty
private Map<Locale, MyEntityI18n> translations = new HashMap<>();
}
#Embeddable
public class MyEntityI18n implements java.io.Serializable {
#Basic(optional = false)
#Column(name = "name", length = 255, nullable = false)
#NotNull
#NotEmpty(message = "{myentity.validation.size.name}")
private String name;
#Column(name = "comment", length = 1200)
private String comment;
#Column(name = "short_description", length = 1200)
private String shortDescription;
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
The merge succeeded on an existing entity value but with a new entity the merge failed despite the fact that the following validation succeeded.
private boolean validate(MyEntity poi) {
boolean result = true;
Set<ConstraintViolation<MyEntity>> constraintViolations = validator.validate(poi);
if (constraintViolations.size() > 0) {
result = false;
for (ConstraintViolation<MyEntity> constraints : constraintViolations) {
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
String message = constraints.getPropertyPath() + " " + constraints.getMessage();
context.addMessage(null, new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_WARN, constraints.getMessage(), message));
}
}
return result;
}

Answer 1

Try to add a #Valid to MyEntity.translations property. I think that your validation method hasn't take account the MyEntityI18n.name validation.
About merge fails, Do you have a not-null DB constraint on the MyEntityI18n.name field?
Good luck!