No transaction

[nickarls]

I'm testing persistence and I'm seeing some strange behavior:

I inject a stateful bean into the test and call it's methods but no insert statements are being generated. Tried adding the arquillian @Transactional annotation but that didn't help. If I add em.flush() after the merge I get a "no transaction in progress" (which is consistent with the fact that no merge is being performed). If i outside the test trying starting a UserTransaction and using em.joinTransaction, I get a "transaction already active". Really strange. I'm using a WF 9.

[nickarls]

Getting even more strange.

If I have an entity Foo and a FooBean with a setFoo(Foo) and saveFoo() which does a merge on the foo, I get update statements for a sequence like

Foo foo = em.find(Foo.class, 1);

fooBean.setFoo(foo);

fooBean.saveFoo();

but not for

Foo foo = new Foo();

fooBean.setFoo(foo);

fooBean.saveFoo();

Both use an requestscoped, produced CDI-@Injected EM

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[aslak]

To follow up conversation from IRC;

The basics seems to work: https://gist.github.com/aslakknutsen/cdde48b1c735a01ae307

Did you come and closer to figuring out what the cause of this behavior is?