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[eclipselink-users] Table generated identifiers (JPA spec. question)
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Sorry, it's me again.
I am laboring under what might be a misunderstanding of the JPA specification in this regard and wanted to check it out.
I have an entity with a table-generated identifier.
I was under the impression that JPA's intent was the following:
If I have set any value whatsoever in the @Id-annotated field, when I persist() my entity--whose identity is table-generated--then that value will get written over by the table generator.
So for example if I create a PersonEntity with an id of 5, and if that PersonEntity has been annotated such that his identity is supposed to come from a table generator (or any generator, frankly, but let's just stick to table generation), then after a persist() operation on that PersonEntity the JPA provider would replace the value of his id field with (say) 4200.
Instead what I am observing is that EclipseLink will simply attempt to take my value (5 in my example) and insert it.
I could not find a section in the JPA specification that indicates what the proper behavior is here.
Thanks,
