How to fix the Hibernate “object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing” error

Question

I receive following error when I save the object using Hibernate

object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushi         


        

Answer 1

One possible cause of the error is the inexistence of the setting of the value of the parent entity ; for example for a department-employees relationship you have to write this in order to fix the error :

Department dept = (Department)session.load(Department.class, dept_code); // dept_code is from the jsp form which you get in the controller with @RequestParam String department
employee.setDepartment(dept);