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

Question

In my application, a hibernate operation goes like this. The application updates a parent entity with new values from the request and deletes all the existing (previously insert

Answer 1

instead of setChilds use addAll ,

from this,

    parent.getChilds().clear();
    parent.setChilds(newChilds);

to

    parent.getChilds().clear();
    parent.getChilds().addAll(newChilds);