I have two classes, ServiceType and ServiceRequest. Every ServiceRequest must specify what kind of ServiceType it is. All ServiceType's are predefined in the database, and ServiceRequest is created at runtime by the client.
Here are my .hbm files:
<hibernate-mapping>
<class dynamic-insert="false" dynamic-update="false" mutable="true" name="xxx.model.entity.ServiceRequest" optimistic-lock="version" polymorphism="implicit" select-before-update="false">
<id column="USER_ID" name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="quantity">
<column name="quantity" not-null="true"/>
</property>
<many-to-one cascade="all" class="xxx.model.entity.ServiceType" column="service_type" name="serviceType" not-null="false" unique="false"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
and
<hibernate-mapping>
<class dynamic-insert="false" dynamic-update="false" mutable="true" name="xxx.model.entity.ServiceType" optimistic-lock="version" polymorphism="implicit" select-before-update="false">
<id column="USER_ID" name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="description">
<column name="description" not-null="false"/>
</property>
<property name="cost">
<column name="cost" not-null="true"/>
</property>
<property name="enabled">
<column name="enabled" not-null="true"/>
</property>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
When I run this, I get
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails
I think my problem is that when I create a new ServiceRequest object, ServiceType is one of its properties, and therefore when I'm saving ServiceRequest to the database, Hibernate attempts to insert the ServiceType object once again, and finds that it is already exists. If this is the case, how do I make it so that Hibernate points to the exists ServiceType instead of trying to insert it again?
