this is probably a stupid question.. but is there any way to force hibernate to do an insert instead of an update when doing multiples saves of 1 object?

for example.. i instantiate my object and save it. now depending on some other factors i might change 1 field in this object and save it again (and rinse/repeat many times). when i do this i get updates after the first save. i would like to force it to keep inserting new rows instead.

is this possible? i would like to avoid having to create new objects over and over and propogate the many fields each time (when im just changing 1 field to the original).

hope my question makes sense.


thanks

Does nullifying entity id work?

It's possible although it would be more consistent to clone this object since this is what you want to achieve in the principle.

You need two things :
1) check the entity is not managed by an open session. If so, do a session.evict(thisEntityInstance) to remove this management.
2) As suggested above, put the value in the id that Hibernate will understand as identifying a new instance. If the key is an object, it's often a null value. If the key is a native type, then it's often 0. See unsaved-value attribute on the <id> tag if it's been specified.

After that, any session.save() on the instance should trigger an insert at the session flush().