hi,

i'd like to generate an id for a persisten object before calling the save() method. Is it possible to use the hibernate generator or do I have to generate my own id and set it manually?

thanks alot
marie

I don't quite understand. Please explain your usecase a bit better....

If you generate your own PK via some algorythm then you would use the ASSIGNED generator. Alternatively, you can use one of the various generators that Hibernate makes use of.

-G

i am instanciating an empty entity that is to be saved to db later. but i want to use the id of this entity in the constructor of this persistent class. when using the generator of hibernate the id is generated when saving the entity to db, but this should be done later and not in the constructor. so i want to access/generate the id BEFORE calling save() the first time.

Hibernate does not know about your object since you save it, so it cannot generate the id before saving it.
Remember that session.save() does not execute the insert statement. It will be done during session flush.

If you must have an id before applying session.save, then you need to generate it manually and assigned iy by object.setMyObjectId(...).