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Christian Mueller commented on CAMEL-2980: ------------------------------------------ The Camel JPA [wiki page|http://camel.apache.org/jpa.html] explains, that: "_The body of the In message is assumed to be an entity bean (that is, a POJO with an @Entity annotation on it)._" I wonder, whether the wiki page is outdated (because the code looks like that we support also collections, ... as body). To be sure, first I will write some unit tests for this... Christian > camel-jpa doesn't use EntityManager.merge(entity) in the right way > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: CAMEL-2980 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/CAMEL-2980 > Project: Apache Camel > Issue Type: Bug > Components: camel-jpa > Affects Versions: 2.4.0 > Environment: All > Reporter: Christian Mueller > Assignee: Christian Mueller > Fix For: 2.5.0 > > > The EntityManager.merge(entity) method returns the merged entity. The > exchange in message body should be updated with the merged entity (what > camel-jpa currently not do). > I running into this problem, because after saving an entity in the database, > the id field was still null. So, we don't know, which entity in the database > is the corresponding to this entity... :-( > Have a look in the process method of > [JpaProducer|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/camel/trunk/components/camel-jpa/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/jpa/JpaProducer.java?view=markup] > and the Java doc from the > [EntityManager|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17477_01/javaee/5/api/javax/persistence/EntityManager.html#merge%28T%29]. > Christian -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.