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        05/Sep/12 12:59 PM
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Description:</strong>
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I have a blob field that don't want updated when I do a save on other fields in the table. Hibernate seems to be doing an areEqual check despite the fact that I've designated the field as updatable=false. Because the field is lazy loaded it's null and I get a ClassCastException when it does the areEqual check on save. Why is it doing a compare on that field when it's not updatable?</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>So my field is designated as such:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>@Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)<br/>
@Column(<br/>
    insertable = true,<br/>
    updatable = false,<br/>
    name = "documentData"<br/>
)<br/>
@Lob private Blob documentData;<br/>
On org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository.save() I get the following error:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>java.lang.ClassCastException: org.hibernate.bytecode.instrumentation.spi.LazyPropertyInitializer$1 cannot be cast to java.sql.Blob<br/>
    at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.BlobTypeDescriptor.areEqual(BlobTypeDescriptor.java:45)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.isEqual(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:196)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3FlushEntityEventListener.copyState(EJB3FlushEntityEventListener.java:79)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3FlushEntityEventListener.invokeInterceptor(EJB3FlushEntityEventListener.java:66)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.handleInterception(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:334)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.scheduleUpdate(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:285)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.onFlushEntity(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:164)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEntities(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:225)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:99)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:51)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1214)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:403)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jdbc.JdbcTransaction.beforeTransactionCommit(JdbcTransaction.java:101)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.AbstractTransactionImpl.commit(AbstractTransactionImpl.java:175)<br/>
    at org.hibernate.ejb.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:75)<br/>
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager.doCommit(JpaTransactionManager.java:512)<br/>
    at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.processCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:754)<br/>
    at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.commit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:723)<br/>
    at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.commitTransactionAfterReturning(TransactionAspectSupport.java:394)<br/>
    at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:120)<br/>
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<br/>
    at org.springframework.dao.support.PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.invoke(PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.java:155)<br/>
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<br/>
    at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.LockModeRepositoryPostProcessor$LockModePopulatingMethodIntercceptor.invoke(LockModeRepositoryPostProcessor.java:91)<br/>
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<br/>
    at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:90)<br/>
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)<br/>
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)<br/>
    at $Proxy216.save(Unknown Source)</p>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Environment:</strong>
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        Hibernate 4.1.6.Final
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Spring
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Oracle 11g
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Project:</strong>
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        <a style="color:#6c797f;" href="https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH">Hibernate ORM</a>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Labels:</strong>
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                    hibernate
                    jpa2
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Priority:</strong>
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