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NPE when updating a detached entity with a one-to-one association changed to null that is mapped with delete-orphan

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We use hibernate annotations and hibernate search in our project. After we moved to hibernate 3.5.2 (and 3.5.1 before that) we are having the following errors:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.engine.EntityEntry.getLoadedValue(EntityEntry.java:255)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:232)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:161)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:127)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.cascadeOnUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:376)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:350)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsDetached(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:246)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:112)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:677)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:669)
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.cascadeCollectionElements(Cascade.java:425)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollection(Cascade.java:362)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:338)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:204)
at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:161)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:154)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:145)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:88)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:50)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1206)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:375)
at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.commit(JDBCTransaction.java:137)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager.doCommit(HibernateTransactionManager.java:655)
at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.processCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:709)
at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.commit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:678)
at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.commitTransactionAfterReturning(TransactionAspectSupport.java:321)
at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:116)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:204)
at $Proxy67.initializePlacowka(Unknown Source)

In different place we have the same problem:

[java] java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.EntityEntry.getLoadedValue(EntityEntry.java:255)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:232)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:161)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:127)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.cascadeOnUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:376)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:350)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsDetached(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:246)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:112)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93)
[java] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:677)
[java] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:669)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:252)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:392)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:335)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:204)
[java] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:161)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.cascadeBeforeSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:451)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:288)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:204)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:144)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:210)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:195)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:117)
[java] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93)
[java] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:677)
[java] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:669)
[java] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:665)

The NPE is thrown because "loadedState" field is null. The exception seems to occur for instance when we have OneToOne with Cascade.DELETE_ORPHAN (or orphanRemoval="true"), CascadeType.SAVE_UPDATE and CascadeType.DELETE.

I will try to create a simple example to reproduce the problem.

WORKAROUND:

Use session.merge instead of session.saveOrUpdate

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Brett Meyer November 21, 2013 at 6:31 PM

If it was after 3.6.10, then that's correct

Antoine Rey November 21, 2013 at 5:41 PM

Thanks Brett for your answer. I saw some commits on the 3.6 branche. Thus they never be released?

Brett Meyer November 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM

Sorry, ORM 3 is no longer maintained

Antoine Rey November 21, 2013 at 4:18 PM

Is it possible to fix this issue on Hibermate 3.6.11?

Steve Ebersole November 1, 2012 at 4:55 PM

If your proposal was the one to use second level cache values, then no. Thats not enough in and of itself. We cannot rely on the second level cache being enabled for something to work or not; its there as a performance option.

No, with reattachment the only valid solution is to generally load the loaded state. Part of that could be to peek into the second level cache as a first option, before physically querying the database. Personally, I'd like to see select-before-update control this; or maybe we default select-before-update to true for entities which contain one-to-one associations with orphan-removal enabled.

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Created May 26, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Updated April 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM
Resolved October 31, 2012 at 7:55 PM