Saving nested foreign objects with ORMLite on Android

Question

When working on Android, does ORMLite only save shallow level objects? I have a data structure with nested Objects, both of which are newly created, and I would like to be a

Answer 1

@DatabaseField(foreign = true,foreignAutoCreate = true,foreignAutoRefresh = true)
public Child child;

Some Notes on this solution

1. (foreignAutoCreate = true) work only if the ID field is not set (null or 0) according to ORMlite documentation http://ormlite.com/javadoc/ormlite-core/com/j256/ormlite/field/DatabaseField.html

   • foreignAutoCreate : "Set this to be true (default false) to have the foreign field will be automagically created using its internal DAO if the ID field is not set (null or 0)."

2. This only works if generatedId is also set to true for the child table according to ORMlite documentation.