@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) not working as thought

Question

I'm trying to persist an object to a database. Keep getting 'Column ID cannot accept null value error'. My object looks like this:

    @Entity
public class TestTable {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Integer id = 0;

    @Column(nullable=false, length=256)
    private String data = "";

    public Integer getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getData() {
        return data;
    }

    public void setData(String data) {
        this.data = data;
    }

}

My persist function:

public static synchronized boolean persistObject(Object obj){
        boolean success = true;
        EntityManager em = null;
        EntityTransaction tx = null;
        try{
            em = getEmf().createEntityManager();
            tx = em.getTransaction();
            tx.begin();
            em.persist(obj);
            tx.commit();

        } catch (Exception e){
            success = false;
        } finally{
            try{
                em.close();
            } catch(Exception e){
                //nothing
            }
        }
        return success;
    }

Answer 1

You may use GenerationType.TABLE. That way, jpa uses a sequence table for id assigment and you may never need to generate sequence or auto-increment values or triggers that lowers portability.

Also note that in java int type is initiated with 0 default, so you may get rid of that also.

Answer 2

In my case it was about bad dialect:

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect

instead of:

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL9Dialect

when I switched to the production database. Hibernate tried to use strategy prepared for different db engine.