We're writing some import / export code in Hibernate 2. We've written out the entities as XML with the primary key ids in the XML as well.

Is it possible to import (I guess insert) and preserve the original ID fields? Is there a keys table that I would also need to update?

I guess if I can suppress generation of IDs by Hibernate for a period of time, then that'd do the trick.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I can't find it anywhere in the forums.

Cheers,

Mark C

PS Our ids are being generated with a HiLo algorithm if that makes a difference.

You could have a look at this and see if this helps:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... eplicating

You could also set the id generator as assigned and then insert, if changing the mappings is an option.