EntityManager persist() method does not insert record to database

Question

I have problem with using EntityManager.persist(Object) method. Now when i get rid of other problems, by app work without Exception but object is not put in my database.

my entity class:

@Entity
@Table(name ="Chain")
public class Chain implements Serializable{

@Id
@Column(name = "id")
  private Long id;
@Column(name = "date")
  private Date date;
@Column(name = "name")
  private String name;
//setters and getters
}

my dao class:

@Transactional
@Repository("ChainDao")
public class ChainDaoImpl implements ChainDao{


    private EntityManager em;


    @PersistenceContext
    public void setEntityManager(EntityManager em) {
        this. em = em;
    }

    public int saveChain(Chain chain) {
        chain.setDate(new Date());
        chain.setId((long)44);
        Boolean a;
        em.persist(chain);

        return 222;
    }
}

my xml context:

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean" >
    <property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath*:META-INF/persistence.xml"></property></bean>


    <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />

    <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory"
            ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    </bean> 

and pereistence.xml:

<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" version="1.0">
       <persistence-unit name="sample">
        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
        <!-- Scan for annotated classes and Hibernate mapping XML files -->
        <properties>
           <property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="class, hbm"/>
           <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.postgresql.Driver"/>
           <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/database"/>
           <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="postgres"/>
           <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="pwd"/>
           <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect"/>
           <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
        </properties>
        </persistence-unit>

    </persistence>

Do anyone have a idea what am i missing?

Answer 1

Are you getting a specific exception? It would be helpful to know what it is if you are.

There are a number of similar problems to this already on Stackoverflow:

Spring transactional context doesn't persist data

Spring, Hibernate & JPA: Calling persist on entitymanager does not seem to commit to database

These suggest that you should try adding em.flush() after the em.persist(chain), and altering the @transactional annotations

You should also check that you have enabled transactional annotations through a line such as :

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/> 

in your .xml configuration