How to fix the Hibernate “object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing” error

Question

I receive following error when I save the object using Hibernate

object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushi         


        

Answer 1

This issue happened to me when I created a new entity and an associated entity in a method marked as @Transactional, then performed a query before saving. Ex

@Transactional
public someService() {
    Entity someEntity = new Entity();
    AssocaiatedEntity associatedEntity = new AssocaitedEntity();
    someEntity.setAssociatedEntity(associatedEntity);
    associatedEntity.setEntity(someEntity);

    // Performing any query was causing hibernate to attempt to persist the new entity. It would then throw an exception
    someDao.getSomething();

    entityDao.create(someEntity);
}

To fix, I performed the query before creating the new entity.