Question

I have loaded an entity into my transaction and have changed a property of that entity. The transaction is not yet commited. Now I would like to get the original value of the changed property.

I’ve tried with a HQL query like select p.property from Person p where p.id = 1 with the ID of the entity loaded in the transaction.

I’ve set query.setHint("org.hibernate.cacheMode", CacheMode.IGNORE); before executing the query. But no success. Hibernate returns the value as set in the current transaction, not the one from the database.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

I have loaded an entity into my transaction and have changed a property of that entity. The transaction is not yet commited. Now I would like to get the original value of the changed property.

In short: track the old value yourself.

I’ve tried with a HQL query like select p.property from Person p where p.id = 1 with the ID of the entity loaded in the transaction.

Hibernate loads a unique version of an entity into the session (the first level cache) for a given database identifier. This won’t work.

I’ve set query.setHint(“org.hibernate.cacheMode”, CacheMode.IGNORE); before executing the query.

This hint is used to affect the query cache (that rely on the second-level-cache), this won’t affect your current “issue”.

Is there any way around this?

Either

• use session.refresh() to force a reload of your entity (and you’ll loose the changes)
• store the previous value as initially mentioned.
• invoke a service that perform a query in another transaction.