The method "merge" from the EntityManager causes a duplicated "insert" of a child entity.

The method "merge" from the EntityManager causes a duplicated "insert" of a child entity.
Related to HHH-3332 Closed

Observed Behavior:

When you have an Entity A with a OneToMany(fetch=LAZY, cascade=ALL or (MERGE and PERSIST)) relationship to another Entity B and attempt to add an new B instance to A hibernate will generate a duplicate insert command upon commit.

I have witnessed this problem occurring when this procedure is followed:

1. retrieve an instance of A from persistence (A a = em.find(A.class, id))
2. add a new B to A (a.getBs.add(new B()))
3. merge instance 'a' back into persistence (em.merge(a))

Upon transaction commit hibernate will generate an additional "insert" statement and insert the new instance of b into the data source twice.

Expected behavior:

I would expect hibernate to only perform a single insertion when 'a' is merged back to persistence and the B's are created through the cascade.

Notes (Discoveries):

This problem can be worked around by:

• Changing the OneToMany relationship from a List to a Set
• Only using either Cascade MERGE or PERSIST not both of ALL
• Add a new B to A.getBs by adding to the '0' index (a.getBs.add(0,new B()))