Hi,

When I am trying to generate an id for my object; I have a class that implements IdentifierGenerator I get a stackOverflow when calling Query.uniqueResult(); The query is obtained from SessionImplementor which is passed into generate method which I have implemented as the interface dictates. The Query is an object returned from getNamedSQLQuery(). This operation is in the context of an update and somehow it ends up being a recursive call on itself ending in a stackOverFlow. However, if i call getBatcher() on the SessionImplementor and perform the same sql query it works fine.

Two questions I have are:

1) Why do I get a stackOverFlow?
2) What is the difference between getting this Batch object vs using the Query from the SessionImplentor?

I know or have a feeling that it has to do with session context but it is not clear.

By the way, the actual query is reading the max value from the table + 1. And yes, I know that there other generators to be used and this method is not really full proof but it is an exercise rather than an implementation i am considering in a 'real' app.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/StackOverflowError.html