I have not played with case specifically, but it makes sense. ORM tries hard to never return a null collection reference. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Davide D'Alto <daltodavide(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > I've created a test for OGM where we store an @Embeddable containing a > list > annotated with @ElementCollection [1]: > > This is the embedded: > > @Embeddable > public class PhoneNumber { > > private String main; > > @ElementCollection > private List<String> alternatives; > > ... > > } > > In the test [2] I first save an entity with the embedded attribute set to > null and then I call a session.get(...) to obtain it. The embedded > attribute is not null as I was expecting. > > The same this happend when I've tried it on ORM, is this the expected > behaviour? > > Thanks, > Davide > > [1] > > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/8a8b29f660973cad4c340931c... > > [2] > > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/commit/bfed4e2df06f18960502af2... > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >