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                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="steve" id="email_steve" href="https://hibernate.onjira.com/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=steve" style="color:#6c797f;">Steve Ebersole</a>
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                <a style='color:#6c797f;text-decoration:none;' href='https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-1917'><strong>Bulk Delete on the owning side of a ManyToMany relation needs to delete corresponding rows from the JoinTable</strong></a>
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        <div class="comment-block" style="background-color:#edf5ff;border:1px solid #dddddd;color:#000000;padding:12px;"><p><span class="error">&#91;17:37&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; happy to take a stab at it, but need a bit of direction &#8211; still digging in<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:38&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:38&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; is the center of the word for hql<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:39&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; if ( sqlAst.needsExecutor() ) {<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:39&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; thats the bit you want to look at ^^<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:39&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; inside org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.exec.StatementExecutor is where the multi-table checks are done<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:40&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; heck, even 1-1<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:40&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; where the fk points to that thing<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:40&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; big can of worms<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; ya<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; but yes, lets chat tomorrpow<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; the plan, btw, was always to add a "cascade" keyword <br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; sounds good<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; ya, that would be awesome<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; delete User u cascade u.groups<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:41&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; for those of us too lazy to set up cascading properly...<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:42&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; well this does not look at cascading<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:42&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; mapping-defined cascading i mean<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:42&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; nor should it<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:42&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; many-to-many is a big problem though<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:43&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; considering user&amp;group are many-to-many, what does that hql mean?<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:43&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; you can't just arbitrarily delete realted groups<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:43&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; those groups, in turn, might be related to non-deleted users<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:44&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; thats the holy-grail of orphan removal <img class="emoticon" src="https://hibernate.onjira.com/images/icons/emoticons/smile.gif" height="20" width="20" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"/><br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:44&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; knowing to delete groups when no users reference it<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:45&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; not something we want to get into<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:45&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; agreed<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:45&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; but<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:45&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; yes but<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:45&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; but cleaning up the association table is doable<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; hahaha<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; damn it, quit reading me<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; lol, not like this discussion has not happened 20 times already <img class="emoticon" src="https://hibernate.onjira.com/images/icons/emoticons/smile.gif" height="20" width="20" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"/><br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; right<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; limit this purely to cleaning up the FK table<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; incredibly useful on its own<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; the cascade you mean<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:46&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; yep<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:47&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; well here is another option..<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:47&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; for fks pointing <b>to</b> these rows being deleted, we could "null out" the relation<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:47&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; for 1-1 and 1-m literally do set null<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:48&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; for m-n delete the row<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:48&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; as non-cascaded "norm"<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:48&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; though i still think this ought to be an option<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:48&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; either of the query, or setting<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:49&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; cascade keyword would be specifically cascading the delete<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:49&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; right<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:49&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; and we would probably error on it in case of m-n<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:49&#93;</span> &lt;sebersole&gt; or ignore<br/>
<span class="error">&#91;17:49&#93;</span> &lt;brmeyer&gt; mind if I capture all this in JIRA?</p></div>
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