Detached entity passed ERROR while creating entity using JSON with MANY_TO_MANY rel

[dattu]

Hi I am new to Spring roo. I am getting "org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist" exception, when I post JSON for creating entity with MANY_TO_MANY relation. Here are details

.roo file

project --topLevelPackage com.test.book --projectName bookmanager --java 6 --packaging JAR
jpa setup --provider HIBERNATE --database HYPERSONIC_IN_MEMORY

entity jpa --class ~.domain.Category
field string --fieldName title --sizeMin 2 --notNull

entity jpa --class ~.domain.Book
field string --fieldName name --notNull --unique
field set --fieldName categories --type ~.domain.Category --cardinality MANY_TO_MANY

focus --class ~.domain.Category
field set --fieldName books --type ~.domain.Book --cardinality MANY_TO_MANY --mappedBy categories

web mvc setup
web mvc all --package ~.web

json all --deepSerialize
web mvc json all

After project is created I used following script to create entities

// curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d '{title:'cat1'}' http://localhost:8080/bookmanager/categorys

cat1 Category was created sucessfully

// curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d '{name:'bookname1',categories:[{"id":1,"title":"cat1","version":0}]}' http://localhost:8080/bookmanager/books

Following Exception comes while creating "bookname1"

Data access failure
Sorry, a problem occurred while accessing the database.


Details
org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist: com.test.book.domain.Category; nested exception is javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist: com.test.book.domain.Category
org.springframework.orm.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryUtils.convertJpaAccessExceptionIfPossible(EntityManagerFactoryUtils.java:326)
org.springframework.orm.jpa.aspectj.JpaExceptionTranslatorAspect.ajc$afterThrowing$org_springframework_orm_jpa_aspectj_JpaExceptionTranslatorAspect$1$18a1ac9(JpaExceptionTranslatorAspect.aj:15)
com.test.book.domain.Book_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord.ajc$interMethod$com_test_book_domain_Book_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord$com_test_book_domain_Book$persist(Book_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord.aj:43)
com.test.book.domain.Book.persist(Book.java:1)
com.test.book.domain.Book_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord.ajc$interMethodDispatch1$com_test_book_domain_Book_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord$com_test_book_domain_Book$persist(Book_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord.aj)
com.test.book.web.BookController_Roo_Controller_Json.ajc$interMethod$com_test_book_web_BookController_Roo_Controller_Json$com_test_book_web_BookController$createFromJson(BookController_Roo_Controller_Json.aj:44)
com.test.book.web.BookController.createFromJson(BookController.java:1)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:213)
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:126)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:96)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:617)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:578)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:923)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:852)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:882)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:789)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter.java:147)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter.doFilterInternal(HiddenHttpMethodFilter.java:77)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:88)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:225)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.request.HttpRequestOperationCollectionValve.invoke(HttpRequestOperationCollectionValve.java:88)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1001)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

When I create using UI generated by spring roo, it works fine but it doesn't when I attempt same with JSON. I think I may not be passing json object in correct format. Please can anyone tell me how to post JSON object to create new Book entity associated with a specific Categories.

Thank you