Bean Validation

[Ing.Thomas Kernstock]

Hi Group !

I have a weird problem with bean validation in JSF and hope someone can help
me. 

I have a JEE6 project using JPA2, JSF2, MyFaces CODI 1.0 and MyFaces Extval
2.0.5 (bean, core and property module).

I have an entity with a field ->


@Entity
@Table(name="bewerbungen")
public class Bewerbung extends BaseEntityVersioned implements Serializable {
.....
        @Lob
        @Column(name="Bemerkung")
        private String bemerkung;
.....
}

a Form with h:inputTextarea that writes directly to the entity ->

<h:outputLabel for="bemerkung" value="#{msgs.bewerben_bemerkungen}" />
<h:inputTextarea id="bemerkung"
value="#{applyForJobPage.bewerbung.bemerkung}" rows="12" cols="75"
label="#{msgs.bewerben_bemerkungen}"  />

and a view bean->

@Named
@ViewAccessScoped
public class ApplyForJobPage extends AbstractProfilePage{

        private Bewerbung bewerbung;

... getter and setter ...
}


There are no validations defined but when I copy a text longer than 255
character into the text field I get a validation Error ! (=> Anschreiben:
Überprüfungsfehler: Wert ist größer als der zulässige Maximalwert "255")

I also tried to change the code to:

 <h:inputTextarea id="bemerkung"
value="#{applyForJobPage.bewerbung.bemerkung}" rows="12" cols="75"
label="#{msgs.bewerben_bemerkungen}" >
<f:validateLength maximum="512" />
</h:inputTextarea>

and

@Lob
@Size(max=512)
@Column(name="Bemerkung")
private String bemerkung; 

Both didn't work. The only thing that works would be to define a string in
the view bean and move this string into the entity later. 

I couldn't find any hints in the internet about a default length of 255
characters. 

Any ideas ?

best regards

Thomas