Going "behind Hibernate's back" to update foreign key values without an associated entity
- by Alex Cruise
Updated: I wound up "solving" the problem by doing the opposite! I now have the entity reference field set as read-only (insertable=false updatable=false), and the foreign key field read-write. This means I need to take special care when saving new entities, but on querying, the entity properties get resolved for me.
I have a bidirectional…