How to avoid automatic entity update on Hibernate ValidationException

Question

I having a spring method: where I am validating the entity after constructing of object, which was previously fetched from DB.

@Transactional(rollbackFor={ValidationException.class})
    public Object approve(Command command) throws ValidationException {
        Object obj = merger.mergeWithExistingobject(command); // where I am fetching object from DB with old values and construct the new object

        validatorService.validate( obj ); // which throws ValidationException

        return saveObject(obj);
    }

But unfortunately even after the ValidationException was thrown. The values still get persisted in DB. How can I avoid this situtation.

Answer 1

You can evict the entity on ValidationException:

try {
    validatorService.validate( obj );
} catch (ValidationException e) {
    entityManager.detach(obj);
    //Or with Hibernate API
    //session.evict(obj); 
    throw e;
}