NHibernate, a different object with the same identifier value was already associated with the session

Question

I have been working with NHibernate, using Fluent NHibernate for mapping. I solved a lot of issues, and started to think myself as experienced in nhibernate. However, this error is quite strange.

This is my model:

    public class MessageNew
    {
        public virtual int Id { get; set; }
        public virtual string Content { get; set; }
        public virtual string Subject { get; set; }
        public virtual User User { get; set; }
        public virtual bool IsSent { get; set; }
        public virtual string AmazonMessageId { get; set; }
    }

And my mapping

public class MessageNewMap : ClassMap<MessageNew>
{
    public MessageNewMap()
    {
        Id(x => x.Id);
        Map(x => x.Content).CustomSqlType("text");
        Map(x => x.Subject);
        Map(x => x.AmazonMessageId);
        Map(x => x.IsSent);

        References(x => x.User);
    }
}

Here where exception occurs:

foreach (var userToSend in usersToSend)
{
    string body = MailHelper.BuildSomeBody()
    if (userToSend  != CurrentUser)
    {
        MessageNew message = new MessageNew
        {
            User = userToSend,
            IsSent = false,
            Content = body,
            Subject = subject
        };
        session.Save(message); // Exception thrown
    }
}

The exception details:

NHibernate.NonUniqueObjectException: a different object with the same identifier value was already associated with the session: 1779, of entity: Models.MessageNew
   at NHibernate.Engine.StatefulPersistenceContext.CheckUniqueness(EntityKey key, Object obj)
   at NHibernate.Event.Default.AbstractSaveEventListener.PerformSaveOrReplicate(Object entity, EntityKey key, IEntityPersister persister, Boolean useIdentityColumn, Object anything, IEventSource source, Boolean requiresImmediateIdAccess)
   at NHibernate.Event.Default.AbstractSaveEventListener.SaveWithGeneratedId(Object entity, String entityName, Object anything, IEventSource source, Boolean requiresImmediateIdAccess)
   at NHibernate.Event.Default.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.SaveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(SaveOrUpdateEvent event)
   at NHibernate.Event.Default.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.EntityIsTransient(SaveOrUpdateEvent event)
   at NHibernate.Event.Default.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.OnSaveOrUpdate(SaveOrUpdateEvent event)
   at NHibernate.Impl.SessionImpl.FireSave(SaveOrUpdateEvent event)
   at NHibernate.Impl.SessionImpl.Save(Object obj)

Id generator is database driven auto-increment id generator. (not hilo or any other). NHibernate version is 3.2.0 .

I have tried overloading Equals and GetHashCode, no luck.

The UnitOfWork pattern I am using requires not to commit transaction or flush session inside foreach loop. NHibernate says there is another object with same id, but all i am doing is inserting a new object, which does not have any identifier at all.

I am using the same structure all over my project, and it works well everywhere but this. I am suspicious that it might be because of "Content" property, which is text and set to a large string.

What am i missing here? Or NHibernate is missing something?

Answer 1

Sometimes it happend when we assign the object to the same new object. So first check your model and viewmodel that they are not same.