[java] JPA - Returning an auto generated id after persist()

Another option compatible to 4.0:

Before committing the changes, you can recover the new CayenneDataObject object(s) from the collection associated to the context, like this:

CayenneDataObject dataObjectsCollection = (CayenneDataObject)cayenneContext.newObjects();

then access the ObjectId for each one in the collection, like:

ObjectId objectId = dataObject.getObjectId();

Finally you can iterate under the values, where usually the generated-id is going to be the first one of the values (for a single column key) in the Map returned by getIdSnapshot(), it contains also the column name(s) associated to the PK as key(s):

objectId.getIdSnapshot().values()