Question

I’m running into a problem with Hibernate where when trying to delete a group of Entities I encounter the following error:

javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException: deleted entity passed to persist: [com.locuslive.odyssey.entity.FreightInvoiceLine#<null>]

These are not normally so difficult to track down as they are usually caused by an entity being deleted but not being removed from a Collection that it is a member of.

In this case I have removed the entity from every list that I can think of (it’s a complex datamodel). I’ve put JBoss logging into Trace and I can see the collections that are being cascaded. However I can’t seem to find the Collection containing the entity that I’m deleting.

Does anyone have any tips for resolving this particular Exception? I’m particularly looking for ways to identify what might be the owning Collection.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would suggest doing the

getEntityManager().remove(freightInvoiceLine);

as the last step. I think it is a good practice, first to remove the child from any collections and then actually delete it. It will save headaches in many cases.