How do you retreive the id from an identity?

toxicbees · **Joined:** Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:11 pm **Posts:** 4

<id name="JobId" column="JOB_ID" type="System.Decimal">
<generator class="identity"/>
</id>

Can anyone tell me how I can retrieve the ID when saving if the generator class is identity?

Basically, in the above code snippet, I have a table with an identity column that creates a new JobId for me, I need the value of the newly created JobId when I perform a save() so that I can use it to populate the rest of my DAO's.

cscashby · **Posted:** Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:46 am

From the Hibernate API:

Quote:

public Serializable save(Object object)
throws HibernateException
Persist the given transient instance, first assigning a generated identifier. (Or using the current value of the identifier property if the assigned generator is used.) This operation cascades to associated instances if the association is mapped with cascade="save-update".
Parameters:
object - a transient instance of a persistent class
Returns:
the generated identifier
Throws:
HibernateException

In other words, the Session.save({object}) function returns the generated identifier.

HTH