How to bypass Optimistic Locking?

byto · **Joined:** Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:17 am **Posts:** 19

Hi,

i'm using Hibernate Annotations with optimistic locking (@version) which works very well. The StaleObjectStateException will be thrown while trying to save an expired object graph.

Now in some circumstances I want to bypass optimistic locking. I want to save objects with expired versions so that no StaleObjectStateException will be thrown.

Is there any automatism for this usecase? Updating the versions manually before merging seems to be circular for complex objects.

TIA byto

byto · **Joined:** Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:17 am **Posts:** 19

any1? :/

hlfsousa · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:07 am

Well, what you are trying to do is actually violate a rule. Unfortunately there is no such thing. What you can do is to copy the current @Version value to the instance being saved. I recommend using a reflection helper class to do this recursevely on the graph being saved, although I cannot provide you any reference to such code -- I do have a reflection helper for other features, but it probably won't be of use to you.

Regards,

Henrique