I tried setting the id mapping as not insertable and updatable, and that still didnt solve the initialization problem with cardinality.
However, changing the one-to-many mapping to use fetch=EAGER solved the issue with the empty list being returned. Now I get the list everytime on every query.
But I am still having issues with inserting. When I send a ListMenuType with all of the list elements set in it, when I do a persist, the main entry gets saved, the list of entries doesnt get saved into the other table. I am still looking at it. Is there something that is fetch equivalent that needs to be done for inserts or updates?
The code I am using is pretty straight forward.
//Persist this object,
entityManager.persist(menuEntity);
entityManager.flush();
This is the sql statement i see, there is none for the related table.
[TopLink Fine]: 2008.01.31 07:30:29.242--ClientSession(23584771)--Connection(10749831)--Thread(Thread[TCP server transport connection thread,5,main])--INSERT INTO char_menu (charMenuId, NAME, OWNER, VERSION, SMOBJPROP, HELPTEXT, SAFEGUARD, CHANGEDIARY, OBJPROP, TIMESTAMP, REFRESHCODE, LASTCHANGED, menuType) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
bind => [35, TestListMenu, Prasad, null, FA4gQnHPGX9eAdMpwds4X6XNjbLt+yu4xJirTot4zyENYCxzjNNFtZftVCg8xbjg4n0F4jcugsD1yZQjlBXapQ==, Testing list menus, dPsB5yRBY9i2x2wmeQk+XUE53slQ+bQbrycFtWfxKMYoWIcG41bWutDhOsDBqUogv3KjC8HEA6AJJvAyKndjJ9LC5IHV4MZ/, , 0\, 1201836628, 1, Demo, 1]
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