Hi All,

I have a object "Application" that has a collection of configuration entries (configEntry). I only access the configuration entries through the Application object so I don't need a bidirectional association.

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="applications.model.Application" table="applications" lazy="false">
<id name="key" column="app_id" type="string"/>
<property name="name" type="string"/>
<property name="description" type="string"/>
<set name="configEntries" cascade="all-delete-orphan" table="appConfigEntries" lazy="false">
<key column="app_id"/>
<one-to-many class="applications.model.AppConfigEntry" />
</set>
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="applications.model.AppConfigEntry" table="appConfigEntries" lazy="false" >

<id name="id" column="app_config_entry_id" type="int">
<generator class="increment" />
</id>

<property name="configKey" type="string">
<meta attribute="field-description">The option key</meta>
</property>

<property name="configValue" type="string">
<meta attribute="field-description">The value of the user</meta>
</property>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>


The problem is that when I remove a configuration entry from the Application collection the hibernate removes the association but the child object ( configuration entry ) remains in the data base.

In other words... hibernate only sets the attribute app_id of the object configEntry to null... what I want is that the hibernate removes the entire object "configEntry".

Can someone help me on this?

Thanks in advance

Hi vhbramos,

Try this

<set name="configEntries" cascade="all,delete-orphan" table="appConfigEntries" lazy="false">
<key column="app_id"/>
<one-to-many class="applications.model.AppConfigEntry" />
</set>