I have a ModelDriven action which controls CRUD operations on JPA managed Entity E. E has a property called ?name? which maps to a database column with a NOT NULL constraint. I have added a RequiredStringValidator annotation to my Action to validate that the ?model.name? property is non-null. The validation works perfectly. However, during Struts Interceptor processing of a user entered empty string for the ?model.name? ServletRequest parameter, entity instance E has its getName() property set to a null value. Hibernate (my JPA implementation provider) detects this property state change when the Hibernate session is flushed at the closing of the JPA EntityManager by the configured OpenEntityManagerInView ServletFilter. This results in an attempt by Hibernate to update the ?name? database column to null and results in a SqlException. So the problem is that even with appropriate validation on a ModelDriven action, my Entity moves to an invalid state which Hibernate then tries to persist to the database at the closing of the session. Based on what I gleaned from this WebWorkx post: http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5315ᓃ (which seems to be the exact same problem except with the OpenSessionInView filter instead of my OpenEntityManagerInView filter) And this spring post: http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=35740 ? I think that what I need to do is set Hibernate?s flush mode to NEVER. What this means to me is that Hibernate will only flush when I execute a EntityManager.flush() command and that OpenEntityManagerInView?s closing of the EntityManager won?t automatically result in a Hibernate session flush and thus Entity E?s invalid state will not be persisted. This is in line with what I understand to be the default behavior of Spring?s OpenSessionInView filter. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to set Hibernate's flush mode (nor am I certain that this will solve my issue). Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Thanks in advance!
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