[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HB-267) ObjectNotFoundException is thrown instead of setting the object to null

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        Key: HB-267
    Summary: ObjectNotFoundException is thrown instead of setting the object to null
       Type: Bug

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Major

    Project: Hibernate2
 Components: 
             core

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: abe zafar

    Created: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 1:12 AM
    Updated: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 1:12 AM
Environment: JDK1.4

Description:
Class A is associated with class B by a many-to-one relationship. Class B has a composite primary key which is composed of two columns, these two columns are used as foreign keys in class A. 

Hiberate creates the composite key for class B from the values of these two columns, but when one of the column's value is null the composite key created will not refer to a row in table B. As a result Hibernate throws an ObjectNotFoundException.

I would have expected Hibernate to simply give a value of null for that instance of B instead of throwing the exception.

In a database schema where the foreign key constraints are enforced this would not be a problem, but when that constraint is not present it is definitely a problem.

Is there a workaround to this issue?


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