[FIXED] Are JPA and Hibernate entity identifiers reset to null after a rollback?

Issue

What happens with Entities in session if I make rollback ? Do they get back to the state before transaction ? In particular do they get new ids ?

Example:

session.startTransaction();
Entity e = new Entity(); //e.id == null
session.save (e);        //suppose it was ok
session.rollback();      // e.id == ???

Update:

I've made the Hibernate 4 test. After the test the entity has become a new id.

Solution

I will simply quote from the JPA implementation (3.3.2 Transaction Rollback):

For both transaction-scoped and extended persistence contexts, transaction rollback causes all pre-exist-ing managed instances and removed instances[31] to become detached. The instances’ state will be the state of the instances at the point at which the transaction was rolled back. Transaction rollback typically causes the persistence context to be in an inconsistent state at the point of rollback. In particular, the state of version attributes and generated state (e.g., generated primary keys) may be inconsistent. Instances that were formerly managed by the persistence context (including new instances that were made persistent in that transaction) may therefore not be reusable in the same manner as other detached objects—for example, they may fail when passed to the merge operation.[32]

This actually means, that it depends whether you have or not an ID right before calling em.rollback() (which depends on FlushMode & JPA implementation). If an ID was assigned, than the ID will remain set. If not, then you will have no ID.

Answered By - Andrei I