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Nickknack
Nickknack

Reputation: 857

JPA - is Cascade and Orphan Removal redundant

In a JPA entity, is it redundant to have:

cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true

From my understanding orphanRemoval is basically a more aggressive version of cascade, so would there ever be a case when cascade would catch something that orphanRemoval wouldn't?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 252

Answers (1)

Maciej Kowalski
Maciej Kowalski

Reputation: 26522

orphanRemoval would only cover the CascadeType.REMOVE.

If you remove the cascade = CascadeType.ALL and leave only the orphanRemoval = true, then you would miss out on the following operations which would not be cascaded anymore:

{PERSIST, MERGE, REFRESH, DETACH}.

Upvotes: 2

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