Bean Validation constraint(s) violated while executing Automatic Bean Validation on callback event:'prePersist'

Question

I would like to store birthdate so I chose date at MySQL, when I create my entities based in my database, it turns out like this:

import java.util.Date;

    // ..code
    @NotNull(message="fill you birthdate")
    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    private Date birthdate;

But when I try to persist it gives me this error:

Bean Validation constraint(s) violated while executing Automatic Bean Validation on callback event:'prePersist'. Please refer to embedded ConstraintViolations for details.

What am I doing wrong here ? I was reading something about define time zone in Google, I'm from Brazil, how should I do that ?

EDIT

package entity;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.*;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import javax.validation.constraints.Size;

import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Email;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;


/**
 * The persistent class for the user database table.
 * 
 */
@Entity
public class User implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Integer id;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    private Date birthdate;

    @NotNull(message="informe seu e-mail")
    @Email(message="e-mail inválido")
    private String email;

    @NotNull(message="informe seu gênero")
    private String gender;

    private String image;

    @NotNull(message="informe seu nome completo")
    private String name;

    @Size(min=6,max=16, message="senha com no mínimo: 6 dígitos e no máximo 16 dígitos")
    @NotNull(message="informe sua senha")
    private String password;

    //bi-directional many-to-one association to Document
    @OneToMany(mappedBy="user")
    private List<Document> documents;

    //bi-directional many-to-one association to QuestionQuery
    @OneToMany(mappedBy="user")
    private List<QuestionQuery> questionQueries;

    //bi-directional many-to-one association to Team
    @OneToMany(mappedBy="user")
    private List<Team> teams;

    public User() {
    }

    public Integer getId() {
        return this.id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public Date getBirthdate() {
        return this.birthdate;
    }

    public void setBirthdate(Date birthdate) {
        this.birthdate = birthdate;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return this.email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getGender() {
        return this.gender;
    }

    public void setGender(String gender) {
        this.gender = gender;
    }

    public String getImage() {
        return this.image;
    }

    public void setImage(String image) {
        this.image = image;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return this.password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    public List<Document> getDocuments() {
        return this.documents;
    }

    public void setDocuments(List<Document> documents) {
        this.documents = documents;
    }

    public List<QuestionQuery> getQuestionQueries() {
        return this.questionQueries;
    }

    public void setQuestionQueries(List<QuestionQuery> questionQueries) {
        this.questionQueries = questionQueries;
    }

    public List<Team> getTeams() {
        return this.teams;
    }

    public void setTeams(List<Team> teams) {
        this.teams = teams;
    }

    public void print() {
        System.out.println("User [id=" + id + ", birthdate=" + birthdate + ", email="
                + email + ", gender=" + gender + ", image=" + image + ", name="
                + name + ", password=" + password + "]");
    }



}

Answer 1

I got the same problem, but after hours looking for the answer, Finally I Found it.... You should edit your AbstractFacade.java class and add this code

public void create(T entity) {

    ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();
    Validator validator = factory.getValidator();
    Set<ConstraintViolation<T>> constraintViolations = validator.validate(entity);
    if(constraintViolations.size() > 0){
        Iterator<ConstraintViolation<T>> iterator = constraintViolations.iterator();
        while(iterator.hasNext()){
            ConstraintViolation<T> cv = iterator.next();
            System.err.println(cv.getRootBeanClass().getName()+"."+cv.getPropertyPath() + " " +cv.getMessage());

            JsfUtil.addErrorMessage(cv.getRootBeanClass().getSimpleName()+"."+cv.getPropertyPath() + " " +cv.getMessage());
        }
    }else{
        getEntityManager().persist(entity);
    }
}

Now this method will alert you which property and why it fails the validation. I hope this works for you, as it does for me.

Answer 2

I got a shortcut way,Catch the following exception where you persisting the entity. In my case its in the EJB add method. where I am doing em.persist(). Then check the server log, you will see which attribute having constrain violation.

catch (ConstraintViolationException e) {
       log.log(Level.SEVERE,"Exception: ");
       e.getConstraintViolations().forEach(err->log.log(Level.SEVERE,err.toString()));
    }

Answer 3

The error displays that the entity you are trying to persist is failing database constraints, so try determining the exact values you are inserting into the database before you actually insert.

and try out by commenting/ommitting @NotNull annotation also.

Answer 4

What I did to solve my problem was to invert the order @Size and @NotNull

before:

@Size(min=6,max=16, message="senha com no mínimo: 6 dígitos e no máximo 16 dígitos")
@NotNull(message="informe sua senha")
private String password;

after:

@NotNull(message="informe sua senha")
@Size(min=6,max=16, message="senha com no mínimo: 6 dígitos e no máximo 16 dígitos")
private String password;

I don't know why this order matter this much, but it does =] Thank you everyone!

Answer 5

Of course, Iomanip's answer is completely right! I've just extended it a little bit. Maybe this helps too:

  private boolean constraintValidationsDetected(T entity) {
    ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();
    Validator validator = factory.getValidator();
    Set<ConstraintViolation<T>> constraintViolations = validator.validate(entity);
    if (constraintViolations.size() > 0) {
      Iterator<ConstraintViolation<T>> iterator = constraintViolations.iterator();
      while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        ConstraintViolation<T> cv = iterator.next();
        System.err.println(cv.getRootBeanClass().getName() + "." + cv.getPropertyPath() + " " + cv.getMessage());

        JsfUtil.addErrorMessage(cv.getRootBeanClass().getSimpleName() + "." + cv.getPropertyPath() + " " + cv.getMessage());
      }
      return true;
    }
    else {
      return false;
    }
  }

  public void create(T entity) {
    if (!constraintValidationsDetected(entity)) {
      getEntityManager().persist(entity);
    }
  }

  public T edit(T entity) {
    if (!constraintValidationsDetected(entity)) {
      return getEntityManager().merge(entity);
    }
    else {
      return entity;
    }
  }

  public void remove(T entity) {
    if (!constraintValidationsDetected(entity)) {
      getEntityManager().remove(getEntityManager().merge(entity));
    }
  }

Answer 6

I had similar issue. In my case the sizes of referenced PK and the FK differed(See example).

Entity A:

some_pk   INTEGER NOT NULL,
fk_b      VARCHAR2(5 CHAR)
...

fk_b referenced ID field of Entity B

Entity B:

id VARCHAR2(4 CHAR)
...

id was here a PK.

Note the sizes of ID(4) and FK_B(5). After changing ID of B to 5 CHAR the error has gone.

Answer 7

I have spent a few hours struggling with this error while I was trying to persist an entity.

Bean Validation constraint(s) violated while executing Automatic Bean Validation on callback event:'preUpdate'. Please refer to embedded ConstraintViolations for details.

This error message is not helpful, quite confusing...

Anyways in my case the cause of the error was - a difference between annotation in Enity

@Size(min = 1, max = 10)
@Column(name = Utilizator.JPA_DISCRIMINATOR)
private String jpaDiscriminator;

And the DataBase column definition:

jpaDiscriminator VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL,