Hibernate read only session - updating entities

Question

We have set all our sessions to read only by calling setDefaultReadOnly(true). However our updates no longer work even after we explicitly call session.update(entity). I can see why this is happening, hibernate does not know that this entity is dirty.

My question is, how can I tell hibernate that I have made changes to this entity which need to be sync'd back? I tried merging the entity with session.merge(entity) but that didn't work.

Answer 1

Before you change the state of the entity, make it not read-only: session.setReadOnly(entity, false)

Then edit the entity, and let flush/commit do dirty checking as per usual.

Answer 2

Try this:

session.refresh(entity)