Dependency Injection in JSR-303 Constraint Validator with Spring fails

Question

I have the same problem as here and here but couldn\'t find a solution yet.

So my sample test project will show the whole relevant configuration and code:

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Answer 1

I had the same issue. The problem is arises because Hibernate is finding and applying the validators instead of Spring. So you need to set validation mode to NONE when configuring Hibernate:

@Bean(name="entityManagerFactory")
public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean
    localContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean(DataSource dataSource) {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean lcemfb =
        new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    lcemfb.setDataSource(dataSource);
    lcemfb.setJpaVendorAdapter(new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter());
    lcemfb.setValidationMode(ValidationMode.NONE);
    // Continue configuration...

If you have confgured a LocalValidationFactoryBean Spring will pick up any validators annotated with @Component and autowire them.