I have this association in the DB -
I want the data to be persisted in the tables like this -
The corresponding JPA entities have been modeled this way (omitted getters/setters for simplicity) -
STUDENT Entity -
#Entity
#Table(name = "student")
public class Student {
#Id
#SequenceGenerator(name = "student_pk_generator", sequenceName =
"student_pk_sequence", allocationSize = 1)
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator =
"student_pk_generator")
#Column(name = "student_id", nullable = false)
private Long studentId;
#Column(name = "name", nullable = false)
private String studentName;
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "student", cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
private Set<StudentSubscription> studentSubscription;
}
STUDENT_SUBSCRIPTION Entity -
#Entity
#Table(name = "student_subscription")
#Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
public abstract class StudentSubscription {
#Id
private Long studentId;
#ManyToOne(optional = false)
#JoinColumn(name = "student_id", referencedColumnName = "student_id")
#MapsId
private Student student;
#Column(name = "valid_from")
private Date validFrom;
#Column(name = "valid_to")
private Date validTo;
}
LIBRARY_SUBSCRIPTION Entity -
#Entity
#Table(name = "library_subscription",
uniqueConstraints = {#UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"library_code"})})
#PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name = "student_id")
public class LibrarySubscription extends StudentSubscription {
#Column(name = "library_code", nullable = false)
private String libraryCode;
#PrePersist
private void generateLibraryCode() {
this.libraryCode = // some logic to generate unique libraryCode
}
}
COURSE_SUBSCRIPTION Entity -
#Entity
#Table(name = "course_subscription",
uniqueConstraints = {#UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"course_code"})})
#PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name = "student_id")
public class CourseSubscription extends StudentSubscription {
#Column(name = "course_code", nullable = false)
private String courseCode;
#PrePersist
private void generateCourseCode() {
this.courseCode = // some logic to generate unique courseCode
}
}
Now, there is a Student entity already persisted with the id let's say - 100.
Now I want to persist this student's library subscription. For this I have created a simple test using Spring DATA JPA repositories -
#Test
public void testLibrarySubscriptionPersist() {
Student student = studentRepository.findById(100L).get();
StudentSubscription librarySubscription = new LibrarySubscription();
librarySubscription.setValidFrom(//some date);
librarySubscription.setValidTo(//some date);
librarySubscription.setStudent(student);
studentSubscriptionRepository.save(librarySubscription);
}
On running this test I am getting the exception -
org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: detached entity passed to persist: com.springboot.data.jpa.entity.Student; nested exception is org.hibernate.PersistentObjectException: detached entity passed to persist: com.springboot.data.jpa.entity.Student
To fix this I attach a #Transactional to the test. This fixed the above exception for detached entity, but the entity StudentSubscription and LibrarySubscription are not getting persisted to the DB. In fact the transaction is getting rolled back.
Getting this exception in the logs -
INFO 3515 --- [ main] o.s.t.c.transaction.TransactionContext : Rolled back transaction for test: [DefaultTestContext#35390ee3 testClass = SpringDataJpaApplicationTests, testInstance = com.springboot.data.jpa.SpringDataJpaApplicationTests#48a12036, testMethod = testLibrarySubscriptionPersist#SpringDataJpaApplicationTests, testException = [null], mergedContextConfiguration = [MergedContextConfiguration#5e01a982 testClass = SpringDataJpaApplicationTests, locations = '{}', classes = '{class com.springboot.data.jpa.SpringDataJpaApplication}', contextInitializerClasses = '[]', activeProfiles = '{}', propertySourceLocations = '{}', propertySourceProperties = '{org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTestContextBootstrapper=true}', contextCustomizers = set[org.springframework.boot.test.context.filter.ExcludeFilterContextCustomizer#18ece7f4, org.springframework.boot.test.json.DuplicateJsonObjectContextCustomizerFactory$DuplicateJsonObjectContextCustomizer#264f218, org.springframework.boot.test.mock.mockito.MockitoContextCustomizer#0, org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplateContextCustomizer#2462cb01, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.actuate.metrics.MetricsExportContextCustomizerFactory$DisableMetricExportContextCustomizer#928763c, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.properties.PropertyMappingContextCustomizer#0, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.web.servlet.WebDriverContextCustomizerFactory$Customizer#7c3fdb62, org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTestArgs#1, org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTestWebEnvironment#1ad282e0], contextLoader = 'org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader', parent = [null]], attributes = map['org.springframework.test.context.event.ApplicationEventsTestExecutionListener.recordApplicationEvents' -> false]]
Now I have couple of questions -
Why am I getting detached entity exception. When we fetch an entity from the DB, Spring Data JPA must be using entityManager to fetch the entity. The fetched entity gets automatically attached to the persistence context right ?
On attaching #Transactional on the test, why the transaction is getting rolledback, and no entity is getting persisted. I was expecting the two entities - StudentSubscription and LibrarySubscription should've been persisted using the joined table inheritance approach.
I tried many things but no luck. Seeking help from, JPA and Spring DATA experts :-)
Thanks in advance.
Let me add a few details that outline a couple of design problems with your code that significantly complicate the picture. In general, when working with Spring Data, you cannot simply look at your tables, create cookie-cutter entities and repositories for those and expect things to simply work. You need to at least spend a bit of time to understand the Domain-Driven Design building blocks entity, aggregate and repository.
Repositories manage aggregates
In your case, Student treats StudentSubscriptions like an entity (full object reference, cascading persistence operations) but at the same time a repository to persist the …Subscriptions exists. This fundamentally breaks the responsibility of keeping consistency of the Student aggregate, as you can simply remove a …Subscription from the store via the repository without the aggregate having a chance to intervene. Assuming the …Subscriptions are aggregates themselves, and you'd like to keep the dependency in that direction, those must only be referred to via identifiers, not via full object representations.
The arrangement also adds cognitive load, as there are now two ways to add a subscription:
Create a …Subscription instance, assign the Student, persist the subscription via the repository.
Load a Student, create a …Subscription, add that to the student, persist the Student via it's repository.
While that's already a smell, the bidirectional relationship between the …Subscription and Student imposes the need to manually manage those in code. Also, the relationships establish a dependency cycle between the concepts, which makes the entire arrangement hard to change. You already see that you have accumulated a lot of (mapping) complexity for a rather simple example.
What would better alternatives look like?
Option 1 (less likely): Students and …Subscriptions are "one"
If you'd like to keep the concepts close together and there's no need to query the subscriptions on their own, you could just avoid those being aggregates and remove the repository for them. That would allow you to remove the back-reference from …Subscription to Student and leave you with only one way of adding subscriptions: load the Student, add a …Subscription instance, save the Student, done. This also gives the Student aggregate its core responsibility back: enforcing invariants on its state (the set of …Subscription having to follow some rules, e.g. at least one selected etc.)
Option 2 (more likely): Students and …Subscriptions are separate aggregates (potentially from separate logical modules)
In this case, I'd remove the …Subscriptions from the Student entirely. If you need to find a Students …Subscriptions, you can add a query to the …SubscriptionRepository (e.g. List<…Subscription> findByStudentId(…)). As a side effect of this you remove the cycle and Student does not (have to) know anything about …Subscriptions anymore, which simplifies the mapping. No wrestling with eager/lazy loading etc. In case any cross-aggregate rules apply, those would be applied in an application service fronting the SubscriptionRepository.
Heuristics summarized
Clear distinction between what's an aggregate and what not (the former get a corresponding repository, the later don't)
Only refer to aggregates via their identifiers.
Avoid bidirectional relationships. Usually, one side of the relationship can be replaced with a query method on a repository.
Try to model dependencies from higher-level concepts to lower level ones (Students with Subscriptionss probably make sense, a …Subscription without a Student most likely doesn't. Thus, the latter is the better relationship to model and solely work with.)
The transaction is getting rolled back because the test is doing DB updates in the test method.
#Transactional does auto rollback if the transaction includes any update DB. Also here is the compulsion to use transaction because EntityManager gets closed as soon as the Student entity gets retrieved, so to keep that open the test has to be within the transactional context.
Probably if I had used a testDB for my testcases then probably spring wouldn't haveve been rolling back this update.
Will setup an H2 testDb and perform the same operation there and will post the outcome.
Thanks for the quick help guys. :-)
Why am I getting detached entity exception. When we fetch an entity from the DB, Spring Data JPA must be using entityManager to fetch the entity. The fetched entity gets automatically attached to the persistent context right ?
Right, but only for as long as the entityManager stays open. Without the transactional, as soon as you return from studentRepository.findById(100L).get();, the entityManager gets closed and the object becomes detached.
When you call the save, a new entityManager gets created that doesn't contain a reference to the previous object. And so you have the error.
The #Trannsaction makes the entity manager stay open for the duration of the method.
At least, that's what I think it's happening.
On attaching #Transactional on the test, why the transaction is getting rolledback,
With bi-directional associations, you need to make sure that the association is updated on both sides. The code should look like:
#Test
#Transactional
public void testLibrarySubscriptionPersist() {
Student student = studentRepository.findById(100L).get();
StudentSubscription librarySubscription = new LibrarySubscription();
librarySubscription.setValidFrom(//some date);
librarySubscription.setValidTo(//some date);
// Update both sides:
librarySubscription.setStudent(student);
student.getStudentSubscription().add(librarySubscription);
// Because of the cascade, saving student should also save librarySubscription.
// Maybe it's not necessary because student is managed
// and the db will be updated anyway at the end
// of the transaction.
studentSubscriptionRepository.save(student);
}
In this case, you could also use EntityManager#getReference:
#Test
#Transactional
public void testLibrarySubscriptionPersist() {
EntityManager em = ...
StudentSubscription librarySubscription = new LibrarySubscription();
librarySubscription.setValidFrom(//some date);
librarySubscription.setValidTo(//some date);
// Doesn't actually load the student
Student student = em.getReference(Student.class, 100L);
librarySubscription.setStudent(student);
studentSubscriptionRepository.save(librarySubscription);
}
I think any of these solutions should fix the issue. Hard to say without the whole stacktrace.
Related
I have a Spring Boot App with Spring Data JPA with hibernate and MySQL as the data store.
I have 3 layers in my application:
API Service
Application Service
Domain Service ( with Repository)
The role of Application Service is to convert hibernate-backed POJOs to DTOs given some business logic.
POJO
SchoolClass.java
#Column
Long id;
#Column
String name;
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "schoolClass")
List<Book> books;
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "schoolClass")
List<Student> students;
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "schoolClass")
List<Schedule> schedules;
Domain Service - My transaction boundary is at the Domain Service layer.
SchoolClassService.java
#Autowired
private SchoolClassRepository repository;
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
public SchoolClass getClassById(Long id) {
return repository.findById(id);
}
Application Service
SchoolClassAppService.java
#Autowired
private SchoolClassService domainService;
public SchoolClassDto getClassById(Long id) {
SchoolClass schoolClass = domainService.getClassById(id);
// convert POJO to DTO;
return SchoolClassDto;
}
My problem is that at times the child entities on SchoolClass are empty when I try to access them in SchoolClassAppService. Not all of them, but out of the three, two would work fine but the third one would be empty. I tried to mark the children lists to be eagerly fetched, but apparently only two collections can be eagerly fetched before Hibernate starts throwing exceptions and it also does not sound like good practice to always load all the objects. I do not get LazyInitializationException, just the list is empty.
I have tried to just call the getter on all lists in the domain service method before returning it just to load all data for the POJO but that does not seem like a clean practice.
Are there any patterns available which keep the transaction boundaries as close to the persistence layer as possible while still make it viable to process the data even after the transaction has been closed?
Not sure why your collections are sometimes empty, but maybe that just how the data is?
I created Blaze-Persistence Entity Views for exactly that use case. You essentially define DTOs for JPA entities as interfaces and apply them on a query. It supports mapping nested DTOs, collection etc., essentially everything you'd expect and on top of that, it will improve your query performance as it will generate queries fetching just the data that you actually require for the DTOs.
The entity views for your example could look like this
#EntityView(SchoolClass.class)
interface SchoolClassDto {
String getName();
List<BookDto> getBooks();
}
#EntityView(Book.class)
interface BookDto {
// Whatever data you need from Book
}
Querying could look like this
List<SchoolClassDto> dtos = entityViewManager.applySetting(
EntityViewSetting.create(SchoolClassDto.class),
criteriaBuilderFactory.create(em, SchoolClass.class)
).getResultList();
Just keep in mind that DTOs shouldn't just be copies your entities but should be designed to fit your specific use case.
I am planning to store data from multiple tables which has one to many JPA relationship. I am creating my Repository interface which extends from JPARepository. My question is If I want to save a data on Many sides of relationship (in the below scenario it's Tour) then shall I do with TourRepository or PersonRespository?
On a similar note Is it ideal to create individual repository classes for every JPA entities where data need to be stored? or any better way with limited repository classes the data store to database can be achieved?
#Entity
#Table(name="Person")
public class Person implements Serializable{
...
...
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "person")
private List<Tour> tours;
...
#Entity
#Table(name = "Tour")
public class Tour implements Serializable{
...
...
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name = "PERSON_ID")
private Person person;
...
You have two independent entities. Person can exist without Tour and Tour can exist without Person. So you should have two repositories - for Person and Tour to store their data independently:
Tour tour1 = new Tour("tour1");
tourRepo.save(tour1);
Person person1 = new Person("person1");
person1.addTour(tour1);
personRepo.save(person1);
You chose the bidirectional one-to-many association so you have to use a 'helper' method like addTour to link both entities:
public Person addTour(Tour tour) {
tour.setPerson(this);
this.tours.add(tour);
return this;
}
Additional info: Best Practices for Many-To-One and One-To-Many Association Mappings
Add cascade to tours:
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "person", cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE})
private List<Tour> tours;
When you save person object, his tours will be saved automatically.
By the way, in Person class, you should have an addTour(...) utilities method like this:
// Person.java
public void addTour(Tour tour){
this.tours.add(tour);
tour.setPerson(this);
}
I would suggest you to use CascadeType.ALL on #OneToMany mapping in Person entity:
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "person",cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
private List<Tour> tours;
And then create repository for person to save person object with the list of tours .
CascadeType.ALL means persistence will propagate all EntityManager operations like PERSIST, REMOVE, REFRESH, MERGE, DETACH to the relating entities.
TL;DR: Is it possible to perform nested transactions in Hibernate that use SavePoints to rollback to specific states?
So I am attempting to persist a parent entity with a OneToMany mapping to child entities. This is working fine.
During this persistence, I would like to catch and log ALL constraint violations that occur. Currently, the FIRST entity (child or parent) to have a constraint violation throws a ConstraintViolationException and rolls back the transaction. I would like for the transaction to still be rolled back, but somehow collect ALL of the constraint violations that would occur.
Here is a brief outline of my entities:
ParentEntity.java
#Entity
#Table(name = "PARENT", schema = "SOMESCHEMA")
public class ParentEntity {
private static final ID_COLUMN = "ID_COLUMN";
#Id
#Column(name = ID_COLUMN)
private Long id;
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = {CascadeType.ALL}, orphanRemoval = true)
#JoinColumn(name = ID_COLUMN, referencedColumnName = ID_COLUMN)
private List<childEntity> children;
}
ChildEntity.java
#Entity
#Table(name = "CHILD", schema = "SOMESCHEMA")
public class ChildEntity {
public ChildEntity(String input) {
this.validationString = input;
}
#Id
#Column(name = ParentEntity.ID_COLUMN)
private Long id;
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name = ParentEntity.ID_COLUMN, insertable = false, updatable = false)
private ParentEntity parent;
// The field under validation (should be less than 25 char's long)
#Column(name = "VALIDATE_ME")
private String validationString;
}
Example run:
public void someMethod() {
ParentEntity parent = new ParentEntity();
parent.addChild(new Child("good input 1"));
parent.addChild(new Child("bad input 1 break here"));
parent.addChild(new Child("bad input 2 break here"));
parent.addChild(new Child("good input 2"));
dataAccessObject.persist(parent);
}
Results:
I see the transaction rolled back and the ConstraintViolationException only contains information for the first bad child.
Desired Results:
I see the transaction rolled back and the ConstraintViolationException show information for all the bad children regardless of how many children were bad. (Also, if the parent has a constraint violation, I would still like to check the child constraints)
Is this possible?
ConstraintViolationException is a HibernateException and all Hibernate exceptions are not recoverable. So if one exception is thrown, you cannot rely on the existing session state to continue processing reliably.
So this is not possible or recommended.
I found a way to accomplish my end result, although it was through means I did not expect.
In order to accomplish my goal, I would need to use nested transactions and SavePoints. At the end of the day, that implementation would still produce invalid data in my database, because during the time it takes to find an error in a child, some of the other children may have already been persisted and a consumer of my database would be unaware that the parent and all it's children were about to be deleted due to one or more bad entities (parents or children).
My solution:
I implemented a validator to validate all of the parents and children before going to persist them. The drawback to this method is that I have to annotate constraints on my entity fields, but double validation is never a bad thing.
The answer to my original question:
This is impossible to due with my version of Hibernate, unless I implemented custom SavePoint functionality to support nested transactions.
I have a many-to-many relation with an additional column in the link table. I've configured it in a way that the owning side fetches children eager (so I don't get LazyInitializationException) and in the opposite direction it is lazy. This works.
I now wanted to fine-tune the transactions (before there was just #Transactional on class level of DAO and Service classes. I set method getById to readOnly = true:
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
public Compound getById(Long id) {
return compoundDAO.getById(id);
}
After this change I get a LazyInitializationException in following snippet:
Compound compound = compoundService.getById(6L);
Structure structure = compound.getComposition().get(0).getStructure();
System.out.println("StructureId: "+ structure.getId()); // LazyInitializationException
If I remove (readOnly = true) this works! Can anyone explain this behavior? I use Spring + Hibernate. Kind of confusing as I don't see any reason why this should affect which data is loaded?
EDIT:
Snippets of relationship definitions. This is a many-to-many with a column in the link table.
Owning side (eg Compound contains Structures):
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "pk.compound",
cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true)
#OrderBy("pk.structure.id ASC")
private List<CompoundComposition> composition = new ArrayList<>();
Belongs to side:
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "pk.structure",
cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
#OrderBy("pk.compound.id ASC")
private List<CompoundComposition> occurence;
Many-To-One in #Embeddable ID class
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
public Compound getCompound() {
return compound;
}
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
public Structure getStructure() {
return structure;
}
EDIT 2:
Stack Trace
org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not initialize proxy - no Session
at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.initialize(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:165) ~[hibernate-core-4.1.7.Final.jar:4.1.7.Final]
at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.getImplementation(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:272) ~[hibernate-core-4.1.7.Final.jar:4.1.7.Final]
at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer.invoke(JavassistLazyInitializer.java:185) ~[hibernate-core-4.1.7.Final.jar:4.1.7.Final]
at org.bitbucket.myName.myApp.entity.Structure_$$_javassist_0.getId(Structure_$$_javassist_0.java) ~[classes/:na]
at org.bitbucket.myName.myApp.App.main(App.java:31) ~[classes/:na]
EDIT 3:
Also see my comment:
Log is very different with readOnly and it is missing the part were the relations are loaded, eg. some selects are missing in the log.
EDIT 4:
So I tired with a basic DriverManagerDataSource and no Connection pool. The issue is exactly the same. For me looks like an issue in Hibernate.
This is just wow. I'm starting to understand why some people hate ORMs...Just feels like I'm constantly having to spend hours to solve a weird issue and the solution is a very specific set of annotations + some code to work around the limitations of said annotations.
First to why this happens (why meaning with which annotations, but not in terms of making logical sense, which is the actual problem here as using common-sense is useless. Only trial and error helps). In the owning side, in #OneToMany I have orphanRemoval = true (which I have found out is required for consistency. one would think database constraints should handle that...just one of the many things that can drive you crazy.). It seems that if the transaction is not read-only, then this setting leads to some data being fetched even so its lazy, namely here:
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
public Structure getStructure() {
return structure;
}
In a read-only transaction, this fetching does not happen. I would guess because if you can't change anything you will also not have to remove orphans and hence any data that the logic behind this setting requires is not needed in a read-only tx.
So the obvious solution would be in above relation to change to FetchType.EAGER. Wrong! If you do that you will not be able to update the owning side (Compound) using session.merge. This will lead to a StackOverFlowError.
The real solution was actually already mentioned. Just leave the config as is but explicitly load the desired relations in the Service layer:
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
#Override
public Compound getById(Long id) {
Compound compound = compoundDAO.getById(id);
for (CompoundComposition composition : compound.getComposition()){
Hibernate.initialize(composition.getStructure());
}
return compound;
}
I admit I'm tending to fall in the premature optimization trap. This doesn't look very efficient and also seems to break how SQL works in the first place. But then I'm in the lucky position that in most cases CompoundComposition will contain only 1 or 2 elements.
Perhaps you could put
value.getComposition().get(i).getStructure();
in the body of the getById() method, so that the lazy loading happens within the transaction. I realize in this case you'd have to loop over i which might be inconvenient.
Two things :-
Lazy fetch works on Collections Interface. Since ...
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
public Structure getStructure() {
return structure;
}
... this is not a collection interface (like List<Structure> would have been), it will be fetched in Eager fetch mode.
Make service method as transactional. It seems that after fetching from the dao layer, your structure is detached with NEVER flush mode. This is the underlying ORM issue I guess.
I have entity e.g. Product which aggregates other entities such as Category. Those entities can also aggregate other entities and so on. Now I need to test my queries to database.
For simple CRUD I would create mock of EntityManager. But what if I have more complex query which I need to test for correct functionality. Then I probably need to persist entity (or more of them) and try to retrieve/update, whatever. I would also need to persist all entities on which my Product depends.
I don't like such approach. What is the best way to test such queries?
Thanks for replies.
Update -- example
Lets assume following entity structure
This structure is maintained by JPA implementation. For example Product class would look like this
#Entity
public class Product {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long id;
private String name;
#ManyToOne
private Category category;
#ManyToOne
private Entity1 something;
}
So now if I want to test any query used in DAO I need to create Product in database, but it is dependent on Category and Entity1 and there is #ManyToOne annotation so values cannot be null. So I need to persist those entities too, but they have also dependencies.
I'm considering pre-creating entities such Category, Entity1 and Entity2 before test using SQL script or dbunit (mentioned by #chalimartines) which would save large amount of code, but I don't know whether it is good solution. I would like to know some best practices for such testing.
you can use #TransactionConfiguration(transactionManager = "transactionManager", defaultRollback = true) as
#ContextConfiguration(locations={"classpath:/path/to/your/applicationContextTest.xml"})
#RunWith( SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#TransactionConfiguration(transactionManager = "transactionManager", defaultRollback = true)
public class YourClassTest {
#Test
public void test() {
//your crud
}
}
update
You cant set the dependecies to null in order to avoid to persist them
I don't know other way, but for persisting Product and its dependencies you can use testing framework DBunit that helps you setup database data.