Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Found shared references to a collection报错原因

Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Found shared references to a collection: com.*****.parameterize.entity.UiueMenuConfig.uiueAssociateMenuConfig
    at org.hibernate.engine.internal.Collections.processReachableCollection(Collections.java:180)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.FlushVisitor.processCollection(FlushVisitor.java:59)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractVisitor.processValue(AbstractVisitor.java:121)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractVisitor.processValue(AbstractVisitor.java:82)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractVisitor.processEntityPropertyValues(AbstractVisitor.java:76)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.onFlushEntity(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:172)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEntities(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:231)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:102)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:55)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1258)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:425)
    at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jdbc.JdbcTransaction.beforeTransactionCommit(JdbcTransaction.java:101)
    at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.spi.AbstractTransactionImpl.commit(AbstractTransactionImpl.java:177)
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.doCommit(HibernateTransactionManager.java:584)

原因分析：BeanUtil.copyProperties() 的方式复制一个实体bean的时候，这个实体bean有一个集合属性，因为这个方法只是做了一个浅拷贝，所以新拷贝的实体跟旧的实体引用了同一个集合，而这在hibernate中是不允许的，所以报错。

解决：设置集合为Null，忽略集合类型属性，创建新的集合，添加旧的集合数据

/**
 * 注意此方法忽略集合类型参数
 * @param source
 * @return
 */
public static String[] getNullOrCollectPropertyNames (Object source) {
    final BeanWrapper src = new BeanWrapperImpl(source);
    java.beans.PropertyDescriptor[] pds = src.getPropertyDescriptors();

    Set<String> emptyNames = new HashSet<String>();
    for(java.beans.PropertyDescriptor pd : pds) {
       Object srcValue = src.getPropertyValue(pd.getName());
       if (srcValue == null) {emptyNames.add(pd.getName());
       }else if (srcValue instanceof Collection){
          emptyNames.add(pd.getName());
       }
    }
    String[] result = new String[emptyNames.size()];
    return emptyNames.toArray(result);
}

/**
 * 注意此方法忽略集合类型参数
 * @param src
 * @param target
 */
public static void copyProperties(Object src, Object target) {
    BeanUtils.copyProperties(src, target, getNullOrCollectPropertyNames(src));
}