Hi

Thans for this great product on the first place!

I have a question here, I have not found answer in the forum yet. :)

I have the following problem.

Datarecord is the parent
Customer is the child

I mapped them the following way

<class name="Datarecord table="datarecord">

attributes......

<many-to-one cascade="all" class="Customer"
column="customer_id" foreign-key="fk_datarecord_customer_id"
name="customer" unique="true"/>

Everything works fine thanks to the cascade.

The only problem I have is the following.

-I have a datarecord which has customer, I load it from db

Datarecord record = session.load(....);

-I assigned null to it's customer

record.setCustomer(null);

session.save...(record);

after saving it, in the datarecord table customer_id field gets empty which is great, reference is killed to this customer. but the customer still exists in the db (now being orphan). since I selected unique=true I would expect that it gets deleted.

is there a way to achive this. or my scenario is wrong ??

Thanks for any help.

Istvan


Hibernate version:
2.x

Just call delete() on the customer if you want to delete it.

NB from the hibernate docs: