Assigned id generator and Save Method

[Patricia Samuel]

Hello All,

While going through the book " Hibernate Quickly", i got confused with this statement -

Keep in mind that Hibernate
doesn’t set the ID value if the generator type is assigned.)

What i deduced that when the generator type is Assigned, we won't get id value of that object. Please confirm me whether i understood it well or not and along with why is it that we don't get Id value in case of assigned generator.

Thanks a lot.
~Patricia.

[Paul Sturrock]

If you use a generation strategy of "assigned" you need to assign the id yourself.