hibernate restrictions on string with hyphen throws assertionfailure exception

Question

I'm trying to pull records in Hibernate using the following Criteria query.

Security result = (Security) getSession().createCriteria(Security.class)
        .add(  Restrictions.eq("symbol", symbol) ).uniqueResult();

The symbol attribute is a unique varchar type (stock symbols), and the symbol parameter is a String.

Normally this works just fine, but whenever the symbol includes a hyphen in the name such as "C-U" I get an AssertionFailure Exception.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong or how to work around?

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Some background....

This occurs inside of a long transaction in which I'm storing intra-day stats (current price of stocks pulled from Yahoo) for a ton of stocks (securities) from NYSE and NASDAQ.

By the point this is thrown, a couple hundred securities have made it through the loop. They've been "saved" but the transaction hasn't been committed yet. I cut that off before the buffer (?) is full. Only if and when it comes to a security with a hyphen in the symbol does it throw this exception.

Here's the calling argument....

security = securityDAO.findBySymbol(record[0]);

The full method in SecurityDAO.......

public Security findBySymbol(String symbol){
    log.debug("finding Security by symbol");
    try{

        Security result = 
            (Security) getSession().createCriteria(Security.class)
        .add(  Restrictions.eq("symbol", symbol)).uniqueResult();

        if (result == null)
            return null;

        return result;
    } catch (RuntimeException re) {
        log.error("Failed to find security by symbol.", re);
        throw re;
    }
}

The Exception thrown...

org.hibernate.AssertionFailure: null id in com.securityscanner.hibernate.IntradayStat entry (don't flush the Session after an exception occurs)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.checkId(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:78)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.getValues(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:187)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.onFlushEntity(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:143)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEntities(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:219)
at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:99)
at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultAutoFlushEventListener.onAutoFlush(DefaultAutoFlushEventListener.java:58)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.autoFlushIfRequired(SessionImpl.java:997)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1590)
at org.hibernate.impl.CriteriaImpl.list(CriteriaImpl.java:306)
at org.hibernate.impl.CriteriaImpl.uniqueResult(CriteriaImpl.java:328)
at com.securityscanner.hibernate.SecurityDAO.findBySymbol(SecurityDAO.java:187)
at com.securityscanner.ScanStatsTask.storeCurrentStats(ScanStatsTask.java:196)
at com.securityscanner.ScanStatsTask.run(ScanStatsTask.java:99)
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)

Security extends AbstractSecurity................................

/

**
 * AbstractSecurity entity provides the base persistence definition of the
 * Security entity. @author MyEclipse Persistence Tools
 */

public abstract class AbstractSecurity implements java.io.Serializable {

    // Fields

    private Integer securityId;
    private Exchange exchange;
    private String name;
    private String symbol;
    private String securityType;
    private String description;
    private Boolean skip;
    private Set dailyStats = new HashSet(0);
    private Set intradayStats = new HashSet(0);

    // Constructors

    /** default constructor */
    public AbstractSecurity() {
    }

    /** full constructor */
    public AbstractSecurity(Exchange exchange, String name, String symbol,
            String securityType, String description, Boolean skip,
            Set dailyStats, Set intradayStats) {
        this.exchange = exchange;
        this.name = name;
        this.symbol = symbol;
        this.securityType = securityType;
        this.description = description;
        this.skip = skip;
        this.dailyStats = dailyStats;
        this.intradayStats = intradayStats;
    }

    // Property accessors

    public Integer getSecurityId() {
        return this.securityId;
    }

    public void setSecurityId(Integer securityId) {
        this.securityId = securityId;
    }

    public Exchange getExchange() {
        return this.exchange;
    }

    public void setExchange(Exchange exchange) {
        this.exchange = exchange;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getSymbol() {
        return this.symbol;
    }

    public void setSymbol(String symbol) {
        this.symbol = symbol;
    }

    public String getSecurityType() {
        return this.securityType;
    }

    public void setSecurityType(String securityType) {
        this.securityType = securityType;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return this.description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    public Boolean getSkip() {
        return this.skip;
    }

    public void setSkip(Boolean skip) {
        this.skip = skip;
    }

    public Set getDailyStats() {
        return this.dailyStats;
    }

    public void setDailyStats(Set dailyStats) {
        this.dailyStats = dailyStats;
    }

    public Set getIntradayStats() {
        return this.intradayStats;
    }

    public void setIntradayStats(Set intradayStats) {
        this.intradayStats = intradayStats;
    }

}

Answer 1

Patrick, the error is not in the select, but somewhere before.

Hibernate keeps a list of all the updated or created objects, when you flush the session or perform any other operation that forces a flush, such as a select, it saves all the dirty objects to the database.

From the stack trace, it looks like you have saved / updated a new instance of IntradayStat without an id and hibernate is expecting one.