Hibernate version. 3.2.3

I setup the one to many relationship between two table/object. I set the cascade to all. However, the update and save will be working for relationship. but the delete will not working. Everytime, I remove on object on the list, and save the object. From the showed SQL, I saw that it will run the update sql statement instead of delete. Please help!

Hi raemond1115,

Use cascade="all,delete-orphan"

Hi dharmendra.pandey,
I tried that already, however, it still using the update statement and try to set all the value to null for the record which need to remove.

Hi raemond1115,

Post your code between transaction .begin and close


this won't work

I am newbie to Hibernate. I setup a console application which has two class. The relationship is using List one-to-many. I set the cascade of the List to be all. I try to do the following
List entriesList = Parent.getChild();
entriesList.remove(oneEntry);
Parent.setChild(entriesList);
session.saveOrUpdate(Parent);

From the output, I show the SQL which generated by Hibernate. However, it keep show it try to update the child with Null value. It will throw exception since the primay key can not be set to null.
However, if the do the following the it allow me to delete
session.evict(Parent)
session.delete(oneEntry);
I think that it will have a way to delete the entry from the associate list without detact the object from session. Please help to me to solve this mystery issue. Thank alot

Hi raemond,

I could suggest following

List entriesList = Parent.getChild();
entriesList.remove(oneEntry);
Parent.setChild(entriesList); //not required
session.saveOrUpdate(Parent);

one entry should be the same object which is added by hibernate in entriesList .I don't know from where you are getting .

Use this way with cascade="all,delete-orphan"


List entriesList = Parent.getChild();
Child oneChild=(Child )entriesList .get(0);//Or you could apply check for ID
entriesList.remove(oneChild);
session.saveOrUpdate(Parent); //optional depend upon the transaction strategies
session.flush();//optional depend upon the transaction strategies