Emmanuel, do you mean saveOrUpdateCopy? Since saveOrUpdate doesn't do any copying of the values onto another instance.

By the way, the "dirtying" of the non-updatable field I described also holds for collections. This means that DefaultMergeEventListener does a source.load(), gets a fully valid object with proxied collections (which would later be lazy-loadable with the current values), copies _invalid_ values on top of the clean proxied collection, and sends that back to the user.

Seems counter-productive.

 Thanks,
 Josh.

Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
This is consistent with the way saveOrUpdate works

Josh Moore wrote:

Using Hibernate with non-updatable fields can leave entities in a
confused state.

Take an Image with a field creationEvent, not updatable. If
Image.creationEvent is set on an instance and passed to session.merge(),
then:

(1) Properly, no UPDATE is issued.
(2) DefaultMergeEventListener.copyValues copies the invalid
creationEvent to the new instance
(3) The client who receives that instance thinks creationEvent has been
successfully updated.

What are the semantics here? Should the spec specify this? Max, you
mentioned via irc that this wasn't in the spec, but I assume

        @Column( updatable = false )


would cause the same issue.

Currently I'm writing logic in my MergeEventListener to NOT copy these
values (difficult because of the EmbeddedComponentTypes I'm using). It
seems, however, that this should be belong directly to
DefaultMergeEventListener.

Opinions?
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