'A collection with cascade="all-delete-orphan" was no longer referenced by the owning entity instance' exception in Hibernate

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Issue

  • A OneToMany collection (e.g. Employee.tasks) marked with orphanRemoval = true is set to null and the exception below is raised when the owning entity (e.g. Employee) is flushed

    ... org.hibernate.HibernateException: A collection with cascade="all-delete-orphan" was no longer referenced by the owning entity instance: support.hibernate.entity.Employee.tasks
            at org.hibernate.engine.internal.Collections.processDereferencedCollection(Collections.java:99)
            at org.hibernate.engine.internal.Collections.processUnreachableCollection(Collections.java:50)
            at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushCollections(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:243)
            at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:86)
            at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:38)
            at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1295)
            at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:468)
            at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flushBeforeTransactionCompletion(SessionImpl.java:3159)
            ...
    

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7
  • Hibernate 5

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