javax.persistence.version causes the Id of an entity to remain null in the transaction

Question

I have two entities with typical primary foreign key relationship. id in EntityA is has foreign key relationship in EntityB. I am trying to persist entity A and entity B in same transaction.

Entity A
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@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = IDENTITY)
private Long id;

@Version
private Integer version;

Entity B
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@ManyToOne
@JsonBackReference
@JoinColumn(name = "id_fk")
private EntityA entityA;

@Version
private Integer version;

I am using javax.persistence.version annotation to perform the optimistic locking on version column. I have two statements

   1. entityARepository.save(entityA)
   2. EntityB entityB = generateEntityB(entityA)
   3. entityBRepository.save(entityB)

The statement number 3 fails with exception that entity A id is null and entityB can not be saved with id null of entity A. I tried to use entityManager.flush() after statement 1 but the id of entity A is not getting generated when line 3 is encountered.

How to change the code so that Id of entity A gets generated and persisted so that when entityB tries to get that primary key of entity A it is not null?

Answer 1

If anyone is having the same issue the save operation of CrudRepository of Spring Data may return entirely different instance of entity so you will have to do following.

   1. entityA = entityARepository.save(entityA)
   2. EntityB entityB = generateEntityB(entityA)
   3. entityBRepository.save(entityB)