Roger - Can you just add a getId() method to your Entity and call that after you persist your Entity?
-Rick On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm writing my first application using the javax.persistence framework with > openJPA as it's implementation over a MySQL database (5.1.34) I've managed > to > get everything setup and I'm able to persist my entities to the database > successfully. > > I'm using the > @Id > @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) > > to generate the primary keys for most of the database tables and this is > where > I'm running into problems. I need to know the value of the generated keys > of > some of the entities so I can maintain foreign key relationships. I've > found > the bit in the manual that tells me to use OpenJPAEntityManager.getObject() > method and this works, but it means that I have to cast my > javax.persistence.EntityManager to an OpenJPAEntityManager which means > that > my application classes are tied to the OpenJPA implementation. What am I > missing? > > Regards >
