I'm using a custom PostInsertEventListener mapped to the "post-commit-insert" event to process domain objects. However, PostInsertEventListener's onPostInsert(PostInsertEvent) is getting called even when the insert was not successful (ie, due to a unique constraint in the database or some such). It looks to me like Hibernate should either a) not invoke the event listener if the insert failed or b) provide state (perhaps in the form of a boolean indicating success/failure). Personally I'd rather the method not be called on failure, but there may be use cases out there for the second option.

As an example, it looks like Hibernate's own LuceneEventListener will add a domain object to the index in onPostInsert(PostInsertEvent) even if the insert failed.

Note that this problem also seems to exist in EntityDeleteAction and EntityUpdateAction (which would mean that Hibernate's LuceneEventListener removes domain objects from the Lucene index even if the delete fails!).