Hi,

I am using a one-to-many unidirectional mapping.
I am trying to delete the child records, but all Hibernate does is to set the foreign key to null, resulting in orphan records.

Using cascade="all-delete-orphan" did not work.

Is there any workaround this? I am unable to change it to bidirectional due to some contraints.

Thank you in advance.


Regards,
Vail

are you explicitly deleting the child records with session.delete(...) ?

No, I am removing the child object from the parent object, then saveOrUpdate the parent.

Is explicitly deleting the child the only way?



Vail

I think so, because deleting it from the parent only removes the reference (sets the fk to null), not the child itself. You have to do this with session.delete

cascading only helps if you delete the parent with session.delete, this would also delete the children.