I have 2 classes: Driver and Car. Cars table updated in separate process. What I need is to have property in Driver that allows me to read full car description and write only Id pointing to existing Car. Here is example:
@Entity(name = "DRIVER")
public class Driver {
... ID and other properties for Driver goes here .....
@ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinColumn(name = "CAR_ID")
private Car car;
@JsonView({Views.Full.class})
public Car getCar() {
return car;
}
@JsonView({Views.Short.class})
public long getCarId() {
return car.getId();
}
public void setCarId(long carId) {
this.car = new Car (carId);
}
}
Car object is just typical JPA object with no back reference to the Driver.
So what I was trying to achieve by this is:
Im getting following error:
object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing : com.Driver.car -> com.Car
I dont want to update instance of the Car in DB but rather just reference to it from Driver. Any idea how to achieve what I want?
Thank you.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention that the ID of the Car that I pass during creation of the Driver is valid Id of the existing Car in DB.
That error message means that you have have a transient instance in your object graph that is not explicitly persisted. Short recap of the statuses an object can have in JPA:
What the error message is telling you is that the (managed/detached) Driver-object you are working with holds a reference to a Car-object that is unknown to Hibernate (it is transient). In order to make Hibernate understand that any unsaved instances of Car being referenced from a Driver about be saved should also be saved you can call the persist-method of the EntityManager.
Alternatively, you can add a cascade on persist (I think, just from the top of my head, haven't tested it), which will execute a persist on the Car prior to persisting the Driver.
@ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.LAZY, cascade=CascadeType.PERSIST)
@JoinColumn(name = "CAR_ID")
private Car car;
If you use the merge-method of the entitymanager to store the Driver, you should add CascadeType.MERGE
instead, or both:
@ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.LAZY, cascade={ CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE })
@JoinColumn(name = "CAR_ID")
private Car car;