Common Hibernate Exceptions

1. a different object with the same identifier value was already associated with the session
In session cache, a persistent object exists uniquely. To avoid this exception, use merge() instead of saveOrUpdate().

One example, many-to-one between authRadius->radius, and I have authRadiusSet[authRadius1(radius1), authRadius2(radius2)], here radius1 and radius2 actually have same database identifier but different objects. When I tried to save authRadiusSet, I got this exception.

2. Duplicate entry '1' for key 2
The object tree for cascade save/update contains two objects with same object id (java object).

3. A collection with cascade="all-delete-orphan" was no longer referenced by the owning entity instance
What is happening here is that Hibernate requires complete ownership of the preferences collection in the User object. If you simply set it to a new object as in the above code sample, Hibernate is unable to track changes to that collection and thus has no idea how to apply the cascading persistence to your objects! So either user.setPreferences(new HashSet()) or user.setPreferences(null) will cause such error. This is also a reason to provide helper methods such as addPreference() and removePreference() to avoid setPreferences is called (made private). See ...

4. Found shared references to a collection org.hibernate.HibernateException
It throws when session flush. It is due to one collection referenced by two entities. To relove it, use merge().

5. TransientObjectException
The object graph to be persisted cannot contains any transient objects (id != 0) without cascade defined. Also note that, if it contains detached object (id >0) and no cascade defined, the detached object will be deleted upon persisting.

6. ObjectDeletedException
Deleted object would be re-saved by cascade. It occurs when you move one object from one collection to the other and you have 'delete-orphan'. There is not good solution.
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