Hibernate persistence not throwing EntityExistsException on persist

[Duran Harris]

Hi all,

I have the following code which,if you have a look at it,should throw java.lang.EntityExistsException BUT.....
it doesn't..am I missing something here ?

 EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
	Seller seller = em.find(Seller.class,String.valueOf(sellerID));
        	
		if(seller !=null) {
        	    seller.addItem(item);
        	    em.persist(seller);
        	}
	
	em.close();   

[Duran Harris]

Anybody?

[See Furst]

That's a subclass of java.lang.Exception? or Throwable?

javadocs doesn't list it?

AclNotFoundException, ActivationException, AlreadyBoundException, ApplicationException, AWTException, BackingStoreException, BadAttributeValueExpException, BadBinaryOpValueExpException, BadLocationException, BadStringOperationException, BrokenBarrierException, CertificateException, ClassNotFoundException, CloneNotSupportedException, DataFormatException, DatatypeConfigurationException, DestroyFailedException, ExecutionException, ExpandVetoException, FontFormatException, GeneralSecurityException, GSSException, IllegalAccessException, IllegalClassFormatException, InstantiationException, InterruptedException, IntrospectionException, InvalidApplicationException, InvalidMidiDataException, InvalidPreferencesFormatException, InvalidTargetObjectTypeException, InvocationTargetException, IOException, JAXBException, JMException, KeySelectorException, LastOwnerException, LineUnavailableException, MarshalException, MidiUnavailableException, MimeTypeParseException, MimeTypeParseException, NamingException, NoninvertibleTransformException, NoSuchFieldException, NoSuchMethodException, NotBoundException, NotOwnerException, ParseException, ParserConfigurationException, PrinterException, PrintException, PrivilegedActionException, PropertyVetoException, RefreshFailedException, RemarshalException, RuntimeException, SAXException, ScriptException, ServerNotActiveException, SOAPException, SQLException, TimeoutException, TooManyListenersException, TransformerException, TransformException, UnmodifiableClassException, UnsupportedAudioFileException, UnsupportedCallbackException, UnsupportedFlavorException, UnsupportedLookAndFeelException, URIReferenceException, URISyntaxException, UserException, XAException, XMLParseException, XMLSignatureException, XMLStreamException, XPathException

those are the known ones anyway.. perhaps this exception is Hibernate specific?

That exception isn't even listed as an irregular exception:

ExceptionInInitializerError, ClassNotFoundException, UndeclaredThrowableException, InvocationTargetException, WriteAbortedException, PrivilegedActionException, PrinterIOException, RemoteException and NamingException

These are Throwable(s) not Exception(s)... so I'm not sure if your exception exists.. At least not in java.lang.

[Duran Harris]

Sorry I meant javax.persistence.EntityExistsException..I'm not using Hibernate...just using it as the persistence provider

[Megan Troy]

As per the specs:
If X is a preexisting managed entity, it is ignored by the persist operation.

So, the code is behaving as expected.

[Megan Troy]

As per the specs:
If X is a preexisting managed entity, it is ignored by the persist operation.

So, the code is behaving as expected.

[Megan Troy]

As per the specs:
If X is a preexisting managed entity, it is ignored by the persist operation.

So, I guess the code is working as expected as you have an application-managed entity manager

[Duran Harris]

Ah thanks so much...I hadn't considered that it would only be thrown if the entity was unmanaged