Spring JPA / Hibernate transaction force insert instead of update

Question

Edited. Whilst extending the base repository class and adding an insert method would work an more elegant solution appears to be implementing Persistable in the entities.

Answer 1

Does this help?

Set updatable = false on your PK column definition. Example:

@Id
@GeneratedValue
@Column(name = “id”, updatable = false, nullable = false)
private Long id;

Setting your id non updatable will stop JPA from doing updates on your primary key, so thing about it.