Cloning JPA entity

Question

I have a JPA entity already persisted in the database.
I would like to have a copy of it (with a different id), with some fields modified.

What is the easiest wa

Answer 1

I just tried setting the id to null and it worked

address.setId(null);
address = addrRepo.save(address);

setting the id to null made it so it saved into a new record with new id since i have it automatically generated.