BIG Hibernate Validator Problem

[remus]

Hi,

I have a class Question with some fields and an one to many with FormattedTextChoice.

@Entity

public class RadioBoxQuestion{
	private String request;
	...

	@Size(min = 2, max = Question.MAXIMUM_CHOICES_PER_QUESTION)
	@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, cascade =  CascadeType.ALL)
	@JoinColumn(name = "RADIO_BOX_QUESTION_ID")
	@OrderBy(clause = "position ASC")
	@ForeignKey(name="CHOICES__RADIO_BOX_QUESTIONS_FK")
	public Set<FormattedTextChoice> getRadioBoxChoiceSet() {
		return radioBoxChoiceSet;
	}
	...
	@AssertTrue
	public boolean validateChoicePositions() {
		 System.out.println("RadioBoxQuestion.validateChoicePositions(!!!!!!!)");
		return Utils.validateElementsPosition(radioBoxChoiceSet);
		
	}
}

The problem is that whenever I try to update any of FormattedTextChoice objects and I do NOT modify the Question request field, the method annotated with @asserttrue (validateChoicePositions) is ignored!!!

So a code like:
...
myFormattedTextChoice = ...;
myFormattedTextChoice.setPosition(9999);
questioningDao.update(question);

will result in corrupted data for me.


But, if I modify also the request field, then will work as expected, and will execute the validateChoicePositions method.

Any clues?

[remus]

any clues, guys?

Thank you in advance

[remus]

Still no ideas?