CascadeType.ALL should behave the same as listing all the types individually ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6805 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6805 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: annotations, core Affects Versions: 3.6.3 Environment: h2 Reporter: Jason Pyeron {code} @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade={CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.REFRESH, CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.REMOVE, CascadeType.DETACH}) @JoinColumn(name = "memberid", nullable = false) private MemberModel member; {code} or {code} @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade={CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.REFRESH, CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.REMOVE}) @JoinColumn(name = "memberid", nullable = false) private MemberModel member; {code} results in a {code} org.hibernate.PropertyValueException: not-null property references a null or transient value: com.millennialmedia.enterprisews.operational.model.AgencyModel.member at org.hibernate.engine.Nullability.checkNullability(Nullability.java:100) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:312) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:203) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:129) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:210) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:195) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:117) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:685) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:677) at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:252) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:392) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:335) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:204) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:161) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.cascadeBeforeSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:450) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:282) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:203) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:129) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:210) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:195) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:117) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:685) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:677) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:673) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext$TransactionProtectionWrapper.invoke(ThreadLocalSessionContext.java:345) at $Proxy66.saveOrUpdate(Unknown Source) {code} if {code} @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade={CascadeType.ALL}) @JoinColumn(name = "memberid", nullable = false) private MemberModel member; {code} it works fine. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira