I used to use Hibernate 4 before, now I use Hibernate 5.2.17, in the new Hibernate ConstraintViolationException is converted to PersistenceException, which is done in ExceptionConverterImpl class, this is not my favorite topic. What can I do to prevent my Exception type from converting to PersistenceExcpetion?
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I do not use JPA and I use Hibernate Native
Since you see PersistenceException, you are probably bootstrapping Hibernate through the JPA API. If you bootstrap Hibernate through the Hibernate native API, you will see the old behavior. Also see here for a more in-depth discussion about this: Hibernate ORM 5.4.28.Final User Guide