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

One other possible reason: in my case, I was attempting to save the child before saving the parent, on a brand new entity.

The code was something like this in a User.java model:

this.lastName = lastName;
this.isAdmin = isAdmin;
this.accountStatus = "Active";
this.setNewPassword(password);
this.timeJoin = new Date();
create();

The setNewPassword() method creates a PasswordHistory record and adds it to the history collection in User. Since the create() statement hadn't been executed yet for the parent, it was trying to save to a collection of an entity that hadn't yet been created. All I had to do to fix it was to move the setNewPassword() call after the call to create().

this.lastName = lastName;
this.isAdmin = isAdmin;
this.accountStatus = "Active";
this.timeJoin = new Date();
create();
this.setNewPassword(password);