Sounds like a bug. Can you come up with a small unit test that recreates the issue?
Thanks, Rick On May 24, 2012 3:12 AM, "Michael Spiro" <m.sp...@dcs-caesar.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm using OpenJPA 2.1.0 and make use of the @ElementDependent annotation. > Recently I discovered following unexpected behaviour. > > > > I have an entity that contains a collection of dependent elements. When I > load the entity in the persistence context, make changes on some of its > attributes (but not on the dependend elements collection) and merge the > entity, then the dependent elements are deleted upon the transaction > commit. > As the entity is already managed the merge should actually do nothing. The > loading of the dependent elements collection is lazy and I haven't loaded > any of them, but the dependend elements were not removed from the > collection > and should be referenced at the time of commit, so I would expect them to > be > retained. Is it a bug or a feature? > > > > Kind regards, > > Michael. > > > >
