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+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.test.exceptionhandling;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.Map;
+import javax.persistence.Column;
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.PersistenceException;
+
+import org.hibernate.JDBCException;
+import org.hibernate.cfg.AvailableSettings;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect;
+import org.hibernate.jpa.test.BaseEntityManagerFunctionalTestCase;
+
+import org.hibernate.testing.RequiresDialect;
+import org.hibernate.testing.TestForIssue;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.hibernate.testing.transaction.TransactionUtil.doInJPA;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+
+@TestForIssue( jiraKey = "HHH-13737")
+@RequiresDialect(H2Dialect.class)
+public class NonActiveTransactionSessionFindJdbcExceptionHandlingTest extends BaseEntityManagerFunctionalTestCase {
+
+	@Test
+	public void testJdbcExceptionThrown() {
+		// delete "description" column so that a JDBCException caused by a SQLException is thrown when looking up the AnEntity
+		doInJPA(
+				this::entityManagerFactory,
+				entityManager -> {
+					entityManager.createNativeQuery( "alter table AnEntity drop column description" ).executeUpdate();
+				}
+		);
+
+		EntityManager entityManager = getOrCreateEntityManager();
+		try {
+			entityManager.find( AnEntity.class, 1 );
+			fail( "A PersistenceException should have been thrown." );
+		}
+		catch ( PersistenceException ex ) {
+			assertTrue( JDBCException.class.isInstance( ex.getCause() ) );
+			assertTrue( SQLException.class.isInstance( ex.getCause().getCause() ) );
+		}
+		finally {
+			entityManager.close();
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Before
+	public void setupData() {
+		doInJPA(
+				this::entityManagerFactory,
+				entityManager -> {
+					entityManager.persist( new AnEntity( 1, "description" ) );
+				}
+		);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	protected void addMappings(Map settings) {
+		settings.put( AvailableSettings.JPA_TRANSACTION_COMPLIANCE, true);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Class[] getAnnotatedClasses() {
+		return new Class[] { AnEntity.class };
+	}
+
+	@Entity(name = "AnEntity")
+	public static class AnEntity {
+		@Id
+		private int id;
+		@Column(name = "description")
+		private String description;
+
+		AnEntity() {
+		}
+
+		AnEntity(int id, String description) {
+			this.id = id;
+			this.description = description;
+		}
+	}
+}