How do you turn off Hibernate bean validation with JPA 1.0?

Question

How do you turn off bean validation with Hibernate 3.x in a JPA 1.0 environment?

I tried several things with persistence.xml:

<persistence-unit name="bbstats" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
  <properties>

    DB stuff

    <property name="javax.persistence.validation.mode" value="none" />
    <property name="hibernate.validator.autoregister_listeners" value="false" />
  </properties>
  <validation-mode>NONE</validation-mode>
</persistence-unit>

The last one causing

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'validation-mode'. One of '{"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":jta-data-source, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":non-jta-data-source, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":mapping-file, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":jar-file, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":class, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":exclude-unlisted-classes, "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence":properties}' is expected.

But nothing of the above work. Can anyone tell me how to do it on a JPA 1.0 implementation?

Answer 1

The javax.persistence.validation.mode property is one of the standardized property from JPA 2.0. It wouldn't expect it to work in a JPA 1.0 environment.

Actually, assuming you're using Hibernate Validator 4, my suggestion would be to remove the JAR from the class path (I'm not sure the configuration settings from Hibernate Validator 3 still apply).

And if you are using Hibernate Validator 3, the following should disable the support of constraints inside the generated DDL and entity validation before an insert or updated:

<property name="hibernate.validator.apply_to_ddl" value="false"/>
<property name="hibernate.validator.autoregister_listeners" value="false"/>

But removing the JAR from the class path would also be straight forward.

If you're facing a more specific problem, please provide more specific details (including the version of Hibernate Validator).

References

• Chapter 4. Additional modules in the Hibernate Annotations reference guide
• Hibernate Validator 4.0.1.GA Reference Guide
• Hibernate Validator 3.1.0.GA Reference Guide
• JPA 2.0 specification
  • 3.6.1.1 Enabling Automatic Validation
  • 9.4.3 Persistence Unit Properties