Hi,

I have a large object graph in the database which a user may update by uploading a file. When the file is uploaded the data is parsed into objects. This object graph is then passed to hibernate and saved.

The problem is that the user may select to update their objects in the database with the file, so the parsed objects are transient, have PKs of 0, but those objects may reflect persistent objects.

In my equals() methods of those objects I have this, where id is PK -



However, hibernate does not find the reflected persistent object with the parsed transient one and I end up with two persistent objects with different PKs but the same values for the other fields.

Does hibernate just compare objects by PK?

solved it!

I was manually adding the parent objects to the children in my code when ever I added a new child!

Hibernate just works as it should now.

Awesome! Thanks for the update.