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Roy Chan
Roy Chan

Reputation: 2918

Hibernate/JPA Bidirectional cascade saveOrUpdate

I am trying to have a many-to-many bidirectional relationship for 2 entities (News and Tag).

But when I try to saveOrUpdate the News (which has Set), somehow it always saves a new set of Tag even id is already populated in the Tag

Is it something wrong with my annotation?

News.java

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(generator = "increment")
    @GenericGenerator(name = "increment", strategy = "increment")
    @Column(name = "NEWS_ID")
    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    @ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,  cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE})
    @Cascade( org.hibernate.annotations.CascadeType.SAVE_UPDATE )
    @JoinTable(name = "NEWS_TAGS", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "NEWS_ID"), inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "TAG_ID"))
    public Set<Tag> getTags() {
        return tags;
    }

Tag.java

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(generator = "increment")
    @GenericGenerator(name = "increment", strategy = "increment")
    @Column(name = "TAG_ID")
    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    private Collection<News> news;

    @JsonIgnore
    @ManyToMany(cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE }, mappedBy = "tags")
    public Collection<News> getNews() {
        return news;
    }

NewsDAO

public void save(News news){
         this.hibernateSessionFactory.getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(news);
    }

What I want to do is when, I save "News", the related Set will be ignored if Tag exist, and will insert new if Tag isn't, is this possible?

Please advise

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1360

Answers (1)

Pl&#237;nio Pantale&#227;o
Pl&#237;nio Pantale&#227;o

Reputation: 1239

The problem is that your object (Tag) is not "connected". By that I mean hibernate is not aware of your object and, when you try to save News, hibernate will see your Tags as new Objects always. Try get the Tag object from db before save or update and use this object.

Upvotes: 2

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