PersistentSet write methods mark collection as dirty even if entry is not written --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1668 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1668 Project: Hibernate3 Type: Bug

Components: core Versions: 3.1.3 Reporter: Koda Janh Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 3.2.1 Attachments: PersistentSet.patch, hhh-1668.tests.txt Original Estimate: 5 minutes Remaining: 5 minutes PersistentSet gets marked as dirty even if it hasn't changed. This has negative implications for concurrency because the optimistic-lock version is incremented and StaleObjectStateException is thrown even if the underlying data remains unchanged. I stepped through the code and narrowed down the problem to a bug in PersistentSet.add(). A simple fix is to replace: if (exists==null) { write(); return set.add(value); } by: if (exists==null) { boolean result = set.add(value); if (result) { write(); } return result; } I verified that this fixed the problem on my end. The old code was always marking the Set as dirty whereas the new code only does so if it actually has been modified. Please commit this patch.