Hibernate all-delete-orphan for ordered collections

Question

I have a relationship like

<set name="someBeans" table="sometable" cascade="all, delete-orphan" inverse="true" lazy="true">
        <key column="some_id" />
        <one-to-many class="someBean" />
    </set>

in my Java code there was a set performed on this which was like

myClass.setSomeBeans(SomeBeans); 

now this SomeBeans is a linkedHashmap and so the order was maintained, however because of all Delete Orphan being used in cascade i was getting exception in a particular scenario as :

HibernateException – A collection with cascade=”all-delete-orphan” was no longer referenced by the owning entity instance

So i changed the java implementation above to

myClass.getSomeBeans().clear();
myClass.getSomeBeans().addAll(SomeBeans)

However doing this i am not able to sustain the order from linkedHashMap SomeBeans.

Has anyone faced such issue as well, any help in this regard would be appriciated

Regards,

Vaibhav

Answer 1

Just to accomplish what i wanted to i created a dummy object copied the properties from the hibernate Object and applied the sorting on it, which got preserved and all delete orphan related problem was also taken care of.