Hibernate Auto-Increment not working

Question

I have a column in my DB that is set with Identity(1,1) and I can't get hibernate annotations to work for it. I get errors when I try to create a new record.

In my entity I have the following.

@Entity
@Table(schema="dbo", name="MemberSelectedOptions")
public class MemberSelectedOption extends BampiEntity implements Serializable {

    @Embeddable
    public static class MSOPK implements Serializable {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        @Column(name="SourceApplication")
        String sourceApplication;

        @Column(name="GroupId")
        String groupId;

        @Column(name="MemberId")
        String memberId;

        @Column(name="OptionId")
        int optionId;

        @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY, generator="native")
        @Column(name="SeqNo", unique=true, nullable=false)
        BigDecimal seqNo;

        //Getters and setters here...

    }

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @EmbeddedId
    MSOPK pk = new MSOPK();

    @Column(name="OptionStatusCd")
    String optionStatusCd;

    @Column(name="EffectiveDate")
    Date effectiveDate;

    @Column(name="TermDate")
    Date termDate;

    @Column(name="SelectionStatusDate")
    Date selectionStatusDate;   

    @Column(name="SysLstUpdtUserId")
    String sysLstUpdtUserId = Globals.WS_USER_ID;;

    @Column(name="SysLstTrxDtm")
    Date sysLstTrxDtm = new Date();

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="option")
    List<MemberSelectedVariable> variables = 
                             new ArrayList<MemberSelectedVariable>();

        //More Getters and setters here...
}

But when I try to add a new record I get the following error.

Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table 'MemberSelectedOptions' when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF. I don't want to set IDENTIY_INSERT to ON because I want the identity column in the db to manage the values.

The SQL that is run is the following; where you can clearly see the insert.

insert into dbo.MemberSelectedOptions 
  (OptionStatusCd, 
  EffectiveDate,
  TermDate, 
  SelectionStatusDate, 
  SysLstUpdtUserId, 
  SysLstTrxDtm, 
  SourceApplication,
  GroupId,
  MemberId, 
  OptionId, 
  SeqNo) 
values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

What am I missing?

Answer 1

When you use @Embeddable or @EmbeddedId, the primary key values are supposed to be provided by the application (i.e. made up of non generated values). Your @GeneratedValue annotation is just ignored.