Problem using generated id in equals() / hashCode() / toString()

[Luis Fernando Planella Gonzalez]

Hi.
I'm using OpenJPA 1.2.2 with OpenEJB 3.1.2, and facing an odd problem...
I have a BaseEntity class, which all other entities extend, with the following 
definition:

@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class BaseEntity {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (!getClass().isInstance(obj)) {
            return false;
        }
        BaseEntity other = (BaseEntity) obj;
        return id != null && id.equals(other.id);
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return id == null ? System.identityHashCode(this) : id.hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public final String toString() {
        return ClassHelper.getUnqualifiedName(getClass()) + "#" + id;
    }
}


When trying to persist a graph of objects, during flush, an StoreException is 
thrown, having as nested exceptions 3 times the following (probably 1 per 
instance persisted): 
<openjpa-1.2.2-r422266:898935 nonfatal user error> 
org.apache.openjpa.util.InvalidStateException: The generated value processing 
detected an existing value assigned to this field: package.BaseEntity.id.  This 
existing value was either provided via an initializer or by calling the setter 
method.  You either need to remove the @GeneratedValue annotation or modify the 
code to remove the initializer processing.

However, I'm not assigning a value by hand: I've debugged and what's there is 
actually the value generated by the DB identity...

The intriguing is that if I remove the id from equals(), toString() and 
hashCode(), no error is thrown. But if I do that, I can no longer trust 
HashMaps / HashSets.

Is there a solution for it?

Thanks in advance.

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Luis Fernando Planella Gonzalez