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    #email-banner { padding: 8px 8px 0 8px !important; }
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    #email-gutter { width: 0 !important; }
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     edited a comment on <img src="https://hibernate.onjira.com/images/icons/improvement.gif" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Improvement"> <a style='color:#6c797f;text-decoration:none;' href='https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7235'>HHH-7235</a>
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                <a style='color:#6c797f;text-decoration:none;' href='https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7235'><strong>Support null NaturalId values in loadEntityIdByNaturalId query</strong></a>
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        <div class="comment-block" style="background-color:#edf5ff;border:1px solid #dddddd;color:#000000;padding:12px;"><p>Thanks for that quick reply:</p>

<p>I simplified my code to a working example that produces same error. </p>

<p>Log: INFO: HHH000412: Hibernate Core {4.1.4.Final}</p>

<p>Mapping:</p>

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<pre class="code-xml"><span class="code-tag">&lt;hibernate-mapping&gt;</span>
    <span class="code-tag">&lt;class name=<span class="code-quote">"package.Node"</span> table=<span class="code-quote">"node"</span> catalog=<span class="code-quote">"database"</span>&gt;</span>
        <span class="code-tag">&lt;id name=<span class="code-quote">"id"</span> type=<span class="code-quote">"java.lang.Integer"</span>&gt;</span>
            <span class="code-tag">&lt;column name=<span class="code-quote">"id"</span> /&gt;</span>
            <span class="code-tag">&lt;generator class=<span class="code-quote">"identity"</span> /&gt;</span>
        <span class="code-tag">&lt;/id&gt;</span>
        <span class="code-tag">&lt;natural-id mutable=<span class="code-quote">"true"</span>&gt;</span>
                <span class="code-tag">&lt;property name=<span class="code-quote">"name"</span> type=<span class="code-quote">"string"</span>&gt;</span>
                    <span class="code-tag">&lt;column name=<span class="code-quote">"name"</span> length=<span class="code-quote">"64"</span> not-null=<span class="code-quote">"true"</span> /&gt;</span>
                <span class="code-tag">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
                <span class="code-tag">&lt;many-to-one name=<span class="code-quote">"parent"</span> class=<span class="code-quote">"package.Node"</span> lazy=<span class="code-quote">"false"</span> fetch=<span class="code-quote">"select"</span> update=<span class="code-quote">"false"</span>&gt;</span>
                    <span class="code-tag">&lt;column name=<span class="code-quote">"parent"</span> /&gt;</span>
                <span class="code-tag">&lt;/many-to-one&gt;</span>
        <span class="code-tag">&lt;/natural-id&gt;</span>
    <span class="code-tag">&lt;/class&gt;</span>
<span class="code-tag">&lt;/hibernate-mapping&gt;</span></pre>
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<p>Check for duplicate existence using natural-id:</p>

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<pre class="code-java"><span class="code-comment">// check <span class="code-keyword">for</span> existence
</span><span class="code-keyword">final</span> NaturalIdLoadAccess nila = session.byNaturalId(Node.class);
nila.using(<span class="code-quote">"name"</span>, <span class="code-quote">"test"</span>);
nila.using(<span class="code-quote">"parent"</span>, <span class="code-keyword">null</span>);
Node node = (Node) nila.load(); <span class="code-comment">// fires exception
</span>
<span class="code-keyword">if</span> (node == <span class="code-keyword">null</span>)
{
        node = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> Node();
        node.setName(<span class="code-quote">"test"</span>);

        session.save(pc);
}</pre>
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