Re: [eclipselink-users] Order of mapping initialization error in Eclipse

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not aware of an existing problem.  Can you provide us with more 
information?  (ideally an recreation, but otherwise a description of your class 
structure, the mappings and the code you are running)

Zeb Ford-Reitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm encountering a problem with EclipseLink 2.3 RC1 that I did not 
> encounter in EclipseLink 2.2.
>
> The problem involves multiple levels of inheritance and 
> "preDeleteMappings". The resulting error is a foreign key violation in a 
> join table when committing the removal an entity with a ManyToMany 
> association.
>
> The source of the problem seems to be missing preDeleteMappings, which 
> would remove the necessary entry from the join table before removing the 
> entity itself. Essentially, the order in which the mappings are 
> initialized (and post-initialized) causes several of our entites to 
> contain the preDeleteMappings from their corresponding direct parents, 
> but *not* from all of their ancestors.
>
> Is this a known issue? If so, is it expected to be fixed in the near 
> future? If not, can anyone suggest a workaround?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> With best regards,
> Zeb Ford-Reitz
>
>
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