[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-5472) Delay saving an entity if it does not cascade the save to non-nullable transient entities

[Steve Ebersole (JIRA)]

     [ https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-5472?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Steve Ebersole closed HHH-5472.
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Closing for 4.1 release

> Delay saving an entity if it does not cascade the save to non-nullable transient entities 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HHH-5472
>                 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-5472
>             Project: Hibernate ORM
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Gail Badner
>            Assignee: Gail Badner
>             Fix For: 4.1.0
>
>
> The proposed fix will have no affect on the cascade algorithm itself. IOW, EntityInsertAction and EntityIdentityInsertAction objects will be added to the ActionQueue in the same order as before.
> Preposed algorithm:
> 1) When an EntityInsertAction or EntityIdentityInsertAction object is added to the ActonQueue,find any transient entities that would cause the insert to fail;
> 2) If the entity insert action would fail due to non-nullable transient entities, then that action is added to ActionQueue as an "unresolved" insert action.
> 3) Otherwise, execute ActionQueue.addResolvedEntityInsertAction( insert ) which:
> 3a) the action is processed (i.e., added to ActionQueue.insertions or executed);
> 3b) the entity status is changed to Status.MANAGED;
> 3c) resolve dependencies that "unresolved" insert actions have on the entity;
> 3d) if any "unresolved" insert actions no longer have any non-nullable transient entity dependencies, then process as a "resolved" insert action by executing 3).
> 4) If ActionQueue still has unresolved entity insert actions when the operation completes, then TransientObjectException is thrown.
> This model (used by org.hibernate.test.annotations.cascade.multicircle tests) illustrates the proposed fix:
> {noformat}
>            ------------------------------ N G
>            |
>            |                                1
>            |                                |
>            |                                |
>            |                                N
>            |                                
>            |         E N--------------0,1 * F     
>            |                                 
>            |         1                      N
>            |         |                      |     
>            |         |                      |            
>            1         N                      |           
>            *                                |
>            B * N---1 D * 1------------------              
>            *                                        
>            N         N                           
>            |         |                              
>            |         |                              
>            1         |                               
>                      |
>            C * 1----- 
> {noformat}
> In the diagram:
> - all associations are bidirectional.
> - assocations marked with '*' cascade persist, save, merge operations to the associated entities
> (e.g., B cascades persist to D, but D does not cascade persist to B)
> If b, c, d, e, f, and g are all transient unsaved that are associated with each other, then when Session.persist( b ) is called, then entities are added to the ActionQueue in the following order:
> c, d (depends on e), f (depends on d, g), e, b, g
> Before the fix, entities would be inserted in the same order they were added to the ActionQueue, resulting in an exception when saving d (because d.e is non-nullable and transient)
> Using the proposed fix, entities will be successfully inserted in the following order:
> c, e, d, b, g, f
> In this case, inserting d is delayed until after e is inserted, and inserting f is delayed until after e and g are inserted.

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