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Vermeulen commented on OPENJPA-2559:
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May be the same issue as OPENJPA-665 that was already fixed back in 2008 (or
was it not tested for UPDATE instead of INSERT?), but the issue is still
present for us using OpenJPA 2.3.0 on a sql server 2012 database.
> OpenJPA silently ignores assigning a null value to a non-nullable column
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> Key: OPENJPA-2559
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-2559
> Project: OpenJPA
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: kernel
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0
> Reporter: Vermeulen
> Attachments: NonNullable.java, NonNullableColumnTest.java
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> OpenJPA should throw a PersistenceException when you merge an entity that has
> null for a field that is mapped to a non-nullable column (@Column(nullable =
> false)). This should also happen when you set the field to null for an
> attached entity and then commit the change.
> This works fine for entities that haven't been persisted yet (INSERT).
> However this does NOT happen for entities that are already persistent with a
> non-null value for the field (UPDATE). When doing entityManager.merge, the
> returned entity has null for the field, but the database still has the old
> value. The entity returned by entityManager.find also returns this old
> non-null value. Similarly, after setting the field to null on an attached
> entity and committing the transaction it is still null in the entity, but not
> in the database.
> This behavior makes it a lot harder to detect programming errors where you
> accidentally attempt to update a non-nullable column to null, or where you
> made a mistake in the mapping and actually expected the column to be
> nullable. (Unless you also use the JSR 303 @NotNull annotation.)
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