Hi All,

I'm having troubles when persisting entities tightly related. I have three entities:

ActiveItem

public class ActiveItem extends Entity {
@ManyToOne(cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
@JoinColumn(name = "logicalitemid")
private LogicalItem logicalItem;

...
}


LogicalItem

public final class LogicalItem extends Entity {
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "logicalItem",
fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
private Set<ActiveItem> activeItems = new HashSet<ActiveItem>();

@OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
mappedBy = "logicalItem",
cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
private LatestView latestView;

...
}


LatestView

public class LatestView extends View {
@OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinColumn(name = "logicalitemid")
private LogicalItem logicalItem;

@OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,
cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST})
@JoinColumn(name = "itemid")
private ActiveItem activeItem;

...
}


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My problem is when I save a new activeItem the SQL generated is

insert into logicalitems (ownerid, id) values (?, ?)
insert into items_views (policyid, logicalitemid, itemid, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?)

and fails since items_views has a foreign key reference on active item, which does not have an id yet since it wasn't persited... How can I tell Hibernate to save those three entities in reverse topological order?

Thanks! Pascal