hi thomas, length of @Column should help. e.g. @Column(length = 512)
regards, gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/9/8 Ing.Thomas Kernstock <[email protected]> > 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 > > > >

