I found that this problem only happens when I'm inserting another
entity from a different entity group in the same request.  I know that
you can only insert from one entity group in a transaction, but can't
I insert into different entity groups in a single connection, but
without an explicit transaction?

On Mar 20, 8:37 pm, Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, I'm replying to my own post here, because I've spent hours on
> this, making no progress.  I've even set the serialized object into my
> entity, saved it, printed it out, evicted all entities from the
> persistence manager, found the entity again, then printed out the
> serialized object in that same request, and it all looks good.
>
> When I come back to the server in a second request to grab that
> serialized object, it's gone.  Only when I set it again in another
> transaction does it stick.
>
> Any ideas?  Is there some weird behavior of saving serialized objects
> into a field that I might not be aware of?
>
> Why would this work on update, but not insert?
>
> On Mar 19, 1:32 am, Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I thought this was working before, so I'm not sure if this is a PEPCAK
> > problem...
>
> > I'm inserting an entity with aserializedcollection of 
> > otherserializedobjects.  This stores correctly on updates, but when I set
> > theserializedcollection on insert, it forgets the collection.  Any
> > ideas?  Would you expect insert and update to handle theserialized
> > collection of objects differently?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Here's how I'm doing it:
>
> > public class Foo{
> > ...
>
> > @Persistent(serialized="true")
> > private Set<SomeSerializedObject> myObj;
>
> > ...
>
> > }
>
> > Foo f = new Foo();
> > f.setSomeSerializedObject(new SomeSerializedObject("foo bar"));
> > Transaction tx = pm.currentTransaction();
> > try
> > {
> >     tx.begin();
> >     pm.makePersistent(f);
> >     tx.commit();} finally {
>
> >     if(tx.isActive())
> >     {
> >         tx.rollback();
> >     }
>
> > }

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