I need to save a copy of an object into the database for which i am using SaveOrUpdateCopy() which saves an exact replica of the object to the database. But this function does not allow cascade="all-delete-orphan" for the bags mentioned in the hbm.xml file of that object. So we changed all the cascade="all-delete-orphan" properties to cascade="all" in the hbm.xml for that object. Which works fine and a copy is saved to the database.

But we have a lot of IList (collections) as properties in that object we are trying to save. Cascade="all-delete-orphan" helps us delete the row in the database if one object in an IList is removed. But cascade="all" does not do that and that record presists in the database even if it has been removed from the IList. And we have to make an explicit delete method call to delete that object once we remove it from the List. Making an explicit delete method call is not something that we want to do. We want the Spring-Nibernate framework to do the save-update-delete and not make explicit delete call.

Can anyone help me on this as to use cascade="all-delete-orphan" property while using SaveOrUpdateCopy() function? We dont want to use cascade="all". This is an urgent requirement for the project.