ActionQueue hasParent() StackOverflowError in Hibernate

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7
• Hibernate 5

Issue

• Inserting/updating multiple entities of associated entity classes

• The following are set in the persistence.xml properties:

                      <property name="hibernate.order_inserts" value="true" />
                      <property name="hibernate.order_updates" value="true" />
  

• Encountering the StackOverflowError below

  Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1093)
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1095)
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1095)
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1095)
  

Resolution

This issue¹ is resolved in This content is not included.EAP 7.1 cumulative patch (CP) 6 and later releases. Production systems should use the latest available cumulative patch.

Root Cause

This is a known defect (Content from hibernate.atlassian.net is not included.HHH-12380).

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