Can action called from button avoid committing transaction?
tynor Aug 24, 2007 4:35 PMSeam 1.2.1-GA, JBoss AS 4.2.1, Hibernate 3.2.5ga
I wish to put a button on a form that adds an item to a list being displayed/edited in a dataTable. The new item is not completely initialized -- until the user types in some values in the table columns, it's not ready for persisting.
On my MyHome class, I have a function
public void addItem() { getInstance().myList().add(new SomeEntity()); }
The problem is that after calling addItem, something is deciding to commit the new SomeEntity to the database. I don't want it to try to persist until I explicitly call em.persist() or em.update(). How can I stop it from persisting the object?
I've tried several types of button markup:
<s:button action="#{myHome.addItem}" ... <h:command action="#{myHome.addItem}" ... <h:commandButton immediate="true"action="#{myHome.addItem}" ...
... and no matter what I do, hibernate is deciding to commit a transaction when I call through the button. Help!
The stack in case that helps:
org.hibernate.PropertyValueException: not-null property references a null or transient value: my.package.SomeEntity.name at org.hibernate.engine.Nullability.checkNullability(Nullability.java:72) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:290) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:181) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:107) at org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3PersistEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(EJB3PersistEventListener.java:49) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:131) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.onPersist(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:87) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.firePersistOnFlush(SessionImpl.java:644) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.persistOnFlush(SessionImpl.java:636) at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$9.cascade(CascadingAction.java:323) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:268) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:216) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollectionElements(Cascade.java:296) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollection(Cascade.java:242) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:219) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:130) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.cascadeAfterSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:456) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.entityIsPersistent(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:111) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.onPersist(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:84) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.firePersistOnFlush(SessionImpl.java:644) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.persistOnFlush(SessionImpl.java:636) at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$9.cascade(CascadingAction.java:323) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:268) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:216) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollectionElements(Cascade.java:296) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollection(Cascade.java:242) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:219) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:169) at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:130) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:131) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:122) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:65) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:26) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1000) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:338) at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl$1.beforeCompletion(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:516) at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.resources.arjunacore.SynchronizationImple.beforeCompletion(SynchronizationImple.java:114) at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TwoPhaseCoordinator.beforeCompletion(TwoPhaseCoordinator.java:247) at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TwoPhaseCoordinator.end(TwoPhaseCoordinator.java:86) at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.AtomicAction.commit(AtomicAction.java:177) at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.commitAndDisassociate(TransactionImple.java:1382) at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.BaseTransaction.commit(BaseTransaction.java:135) at com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.BaseTransactionManagerDelegate.commit(BaseTransactionManagerDelegate.java:87) at org.jboss.tm.usertx.client.ServerVMClientUserTransaction.commit(ServerVMClientUserTransaction.java:140) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.AbstractSeamPhaseListener.commitOrRollback(AbstractSeamPhaseListener.java:324) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.TransactionalSeamPhaseListener.handleTransactionsAfterPageActions(TransactionalSeamPhaseListener.java:52) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.AbstractSeamPhaseListener.enterPage(AbstractSeamPhaseListener.java:285) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.AbstractSeamPhaseListener.beforeRender(AbstractSeamPhaseListener.java:214) at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.beforePhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:56) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:222) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:63) at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:60) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:57) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:79) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:49) at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:127) at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:277) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:179) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:241) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:580) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)