Within the event listener/interceptor model is there an event that occurs during the save process where you can get access to values created by the database (identity) during the save? I've tried post-insert and save-update but both events show the identity values as null. Any help would be appreciated.

The PostInsertEventListener will give you this.

Strange that you don't see it on the post-insert. That event is giving me the correct id here (3.1rc2). I'm using native generation of "long" ids against a mysql database.

Hmm... I do see it under the id property of PostInsertEvent object, but for some reason it is not under entity object (still null). Thanks for your help. Now my next question is can I potentially rollback (veto) the transaction at this point? Basically I want to try an operation at this level once I know what the database generated key is. If by chance this operation has a problem, I want to force a rollback of everything.

I've not tried this out, but looking at the code I'd say that throwing any exception from an event handler should do what you want.

Another possibility would be to get hold of the current transaction, and call rollback on it. Can't immediately see how to get the current transaction, but there must be a way...

Does anyone know how to get the current transaction? The session is not passed in the PostInsertEvent, as it is in PreInsertEvent?

Frido