Hi,
Can I save parent and child details using single save?

For ex, if I have Employee and Address objects in one-to-many form, is it possible for me to save one employee with 3 addresses in a single
session.save(employee), after having set employee.setEmployees() Collection????

Or do I need to save parent first and then children????

Please advise???

You can set the parameter cascade in your mapping file (for the collection) to save-update.

eg

<list name="address" table="address" cascade="save-update" .......>

you can also set this to

all|none|save-update|delete|all-delete-orphan

I hope this helps

Hello arumugam_kasi;

I did try the cascade property and always Hibernate tends to update the child. This happens specifically when i mentione one-to-many relating in the collection i.e. in the bag / set / map

instend of one-to-many when i specify the child table with composit-element then hibernate is inserting into the child table

eg:
[code]
<bag name="x" table="x" cascade="all">
<key >
<column name="ID" />
</key>
<composite-element class="y">
<property name="xyz" type="integer" column="xyz"/>
<property name="abc" type="integer" column="abc"/>
<property name="efg" type="integer" column="efg"/>
</composite-element>
</bag>

the above would do an insert to child

instead if you have

[code]
<bag name="x" table="x" cascade="all">
<key >
<column name="ID" />
</key>
<one-to-many class="y" />
</bag>
this is doing an update.

well thatz the way it is working for me. I am breaking my head to solve the second case to insert. Let me know if both work fine with you.

Regards

Rajeshwar Rao[/code]

add inverse=true in your collection.

I did that too it did not help. I am trying the method suggested is some other forum topic where in i would be introducing an add method th my POJO so that hibernate understands it as an insert.

Anyways thanks for your reply. If you have any other suggestion then do let me know i have just started applying the add suggestion

Rajesh

I tried the add method in POJO this does not help too .. It still gives me update statements