Sometimes, when trying to delete parent object in GORM, even when there is
children cascade:'all-delete-orphan'
there is exception:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails (`db`.`domain`, CONSTRAINT `FKB8FB823DBF953235` FOREIGN KEY (`domain_id`) REFERENCES `user` (`id`))
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:409)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:384)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1041)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3566)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3498)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1959)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2113)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2568)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2113)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:2409)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:2327)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:2312)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:105)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:105)
It is possible to solve this issue, by explicitly clearing all children from parent object before delete.
domain.children.clear()
After that it successfully deletes domain object.