ToyStore Unexpected exception / Entity Level validation check question.

Question

Hi,
JDev 10..1.2
I'm using the ToyStore Exception/Error handler.
I added an Entity level validation test by adding following test in the validateEntity method of my entity:
protected void validateEntity()
super.validateEntity();
if (this.getAccountStatus() != null && this.getAccountStatus().compareTo(Constants.NUMBER_20) < 0)
throw new JboException(ErrorMessages.class,"14000",null);
In the ErrorMessages class I added following line to the message array:
{ "14000", "Entity validation ERROR" }
I would have expected to see this error in the "global error section" but the exception was handled as a "unexpected exception" and was shown in the stack trace but not in the generated page.
Could you please tell me how to write an entity level validation error in the validateEntity method so that it gets displayed in the global error section?
I succesfully added attribute level validation and it gets displayed at the attribute level.
Here's the stack trace, notice that the message is retrieved from my ErrorMessages.class:
05/08/10 11:28:03 com.photoswing.webview.actions.AccountCreateAction.reportErrors userLocale: English (United States)
oracle.jbo.JboException: Entity validation ERROR
     at com.photoswing.model.site.AccountTestImpl.validateEntity(AccountTestImpl.java:83)
     at oracle.jbo.server.EntityImpl.validate(EntityImpl.java:1506)
     at oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl.validate(DBTransactionImpl.java:3944)
     at oracle.adf.model.bc4j.DCJboDataControl.validate(DCJboDataControl.java:958)
     at oracle.adf.model.binding.DCBindingContainer.validateInputValues(DCBindingContainer.java:1681)
     at oracle.adf.controller.lifecycle.PageLifecycle.validateModelUpdates(PageLifecycle.java:465)
     at oracle.adf.controller.struts.actions.DataAction.validateModelUpdates(DataAction.java:328)
     at oracle.adf.controller.struts.actions.DataAction.validateModelUpdates(DataAction.java:519)
     at oracle.adf.controller.lifecycle.PageLifecycle.handleLifecycle(PageLifecycle.java:115)
     at oracle.adf.controller.struts.actions.DataAction.handleLifecycle(DataAction.java:223)
     at com.photoswing.webview.actions.BaseDataForwardAction.handleLifecycle(BaseDataForwardAction.java:209)
     at oracle.adf.controller.struts.actions.DataAction.execute(DataAction.java:155)
     at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
     at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
     at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1485)
     at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:527)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:768)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.evermind.server.http.ResourceFilterChain.doFilter(ResourceFilterChain.java:65)
     at oracle.security.jazn.oc4j.JAZNFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
     at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindFilterChain.doFilter(EvermindFilterChain.java:16)
     at com.photoswing.filter.LocaleFilter.doFilter(LocaleFilter.java:191)
     at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindFilterChain.doFilter(EvermindFilterChain.java:20)
     at oracle.adf.model.servlet.ADFBindingFilter.doFilter(ADFBindingFilter.java:235)
     at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:600)
     at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:317)
     at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:790)
     at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:270)
     at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:112)
     at com.evermind.util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:192)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Thanks
Fred

Answer 1

More info:
If I write:
<html-el:errors/>
I get all the errors displayed.
My purpose is to display the attribute level errors next is to each attribute and the Entity level errors at the top.
So at the top I wrote:
<html:errors property="<%= ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR %>"/>
I added following trace:
At the beginning of the processException method:
System.out.println(getClass().getName()+".processException, ex: "+ex.toString()+", ex.getClass().getName(): "+ex.getClass().getName());
In the if block:
if (attrName == null) {
String errorCode = jboex.getErrorCode();
globalErrs.add(jboex.getLocalizedMessage(locale));
System.out.println("attrName == null, errorCode: "+errorCode+", jboex.getLocalizedMessage(locale): "+jboex.getLocalizedMessage(locale));
My trace:
05/08/10 12:19:44 com.photoswing.webview.actions.AccountCreateAction.processException, ex: oracle.jbo.RowValException: Failed to validate a row with key null of type WebAccountAM.AccountTestView1, ex.getClass().getName(): oracle.jbo.RowValException
05/08/10 12:19:44 com.photoswing.webview.actions.AccountCreateAction.processException, ex: oracle.jbo.JboException: Entity validation ERROR, ex.getClass().getName(): oracle.jbo.JboException
05/08/10 12:19:44 attrName == null, errorCode: 14000, jboex.getLocalizedMessage(locale): Entity validation ERROR
Remark:
AccountId => pk, not mandatory,refresh after insert => sequence fetched in pre-insert trigger
Thanks
Fred