I have a list one-to-many collection and this is what's bugging me:

So I have my parent that has the following settings:
<list name="children" lazy="true" inverse="true" cascade="all-delete-orphan">
<key column="parent_id" />
<index column="child_no" />
<one-to-many class="model.Child0" />
</list>

with this setting the child_no column is not updated if I set inverse=false the child_no will be updated correctly but then all-delete-orphan is messed up. (delete will not happen)

How do I resolve this?

Thanks,
Alex.

For inverse="true", read http://www.hibernate.org/Documentation/InsideExplanationOfInverseTrue

For all-delete-orphan, you have to be more precise.

Actually I figured that it is not a supported feature.

Basically, I have an uderstanding of what inverse does. The reason I needed this is explained in my other topic that I posted later that day.

In short, if you need indecies of your list updated automagically you need inverse="false" otherwise hibernate will take whatever you have in your many side of the relation. Now, inverse="false" makes all-delete-orphan not fired. I would call it a bug, because semantically this possibility makes sense, but gavin calls it an usupported feature :-) I will leave it at that.

thanks,
Alex.