I am using hibernate envers 4.0.1.Final, with Hibernate 4.1.4.Final. I have below entities having relation with each other :

CustomerEntity;

@Entity

@Table(name = "customer")

@Audited

public class CustomerEntity extends TenantEntity implements Serializable

{

    @Id

    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)

    @Column(name = "Customer_ID", unique = true, nullable = false)

    private Long customerId;

   //bi-directional many-to-one association to CustomerNote

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="customer", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)

    private List<CustomerNoteEntity> customerNotes;

}

CustomerNoteEntity:

@Entity

@Table(name="customer_note")

@Audited

public class CustomerNoteEntity extends BaseEntity implements Serializable {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

//bi-directional many-to-one association to Customer

@ManyToOne

  @JoinColumn(name="customer_id")

  private CustomerEntity customer;

}

When I do a insert in CustomerNoteEnitiy, following queries are triggered:

1) insert into customer_note

2)insert into REVINFO

3) insert into customer_note_AUD

4)insert into customer_AUD

When it inserts in customer_AUD, i get

org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Column 'customer_creation_datetime' cannot be null.

All the values to be inserted in the customer_AUD are null. How can hibernate get values for the data to be inserted in the customer_AUD table.

Is there an option that we can audit only the child table (CustomerNote) along with the join column and not the Parent table(Customer)