JPA Repository - Getting duplicates in List caused by table joins - spring

Question

I am having a very difficult situation and yet the situation is very complex and hard to find similar case in stackoverflow.
I have the following entities
Store
#Data
#Entity
#Table(name = "store")
public class Store implements IModel {
#Id
#EqualsAndHashCode.Exclude
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private UUID id;
#Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
#Column(name = "storestatus", nullable = false)
private StoreStatus storeStatus = StoreStatus.UNKNOWN;
#OneToOne
#JoinColumn(name = "storetypecode_id")
private StoreTypeCode storeTypeCode;
#OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "store")
private Address address;
#Setter(AccessLevel.NONE)
#EqualsAndHashCode.Exclude
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "store")
private Set<StoreTranslation> storeTranslationList = new HashSet<>();
public Store() {
}
StoreTypeCode
#Data
#Entity
#Table(name = "storetypecode")
public class StoreTypeCode implements IModel {
#Id
#EqualsAndHashCode.Exclude
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private UUID id;
#Column(name = "displaysort", nullable = false)
private Integer displaySort = 999;
#Setter(AccessLevel.NONE)
#EqualsAndHashCode.Exclude
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "storeTypeCode")
private Set<StoreTypeCodeTranslation> storeTypeCodeTranslationList = new HashSet<>();
public StoreTypeCode() {
}
}
And StoreCategory
#Data
#Entity
#Table(name = "storeitemcategory")
public class StoreItemCategory implements IModel {
#Id
#EqualsAndHashCode.Exclude
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private UUID id;
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name = "store_id")
private Store store;
#ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
#JoinTable(
name = "storeitemcategory_storeitem",
joinColumns = {#JoinColumn(name = "storeitemcategory_id", referencedColumnName = "id")},
inverseJoinColumns = {#JoinColumn(name = "storeitem_id", referencedColumnName = "id")})
private List<StoreItem> storeItems = new ArrayList<>();
#Setter(AccessLevel.NONE)
#EqualsAndHashCode.Exclude
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "storeItemCategory")
private Set<StoreItemCategoryTranslation> storeItemCategoryTranslationList = new HashSet<>();
public StoreItemCategory() {
}
public void addStoreItem(StoreItem storeItem) {
this.storeItems.add(storeItem);
}
}
With the above relationship, here is what I have.
Store A with storeTypeCode ("Cafe") and storeItemCategory ("Iced drinks")
StoreTypeCode has two translations 1) for English, 2) for Chinese.
Whenever I add an item to storeItems in StoreItemCategory, I get duplicates in the list. (And multiple duplicate records are inserted to 'storeitemcategory_storeitem' table.)
StoreItemCategory sic = storeItemCategoryRepository.findById(storeItemCategoryid).get();
sic.addStoreItem(new StoreItem(...));
sic = storeItemCategoryRepository.save(sic);
I suspect this has something to do with the way tables are joined for translations because when I run a query created from Spring for getting StoreItemCategory, I get multiple records of StoreItemCategory (one for English and one for Chinese from StoreTypeCode).
select
*
from
storeitemcategory storeitemc0_
left outer join
store store1_
on storeitemc0_.store_id=store1_.id
left outer join
storetranslation storetrans2_
on store1_.id=storetrans2_.store_id
left outer join
storetypecode storetypec3_
on store1_.storetypecode_id=storetypec3_.id
left outer join
storetypecodetranslation storetypec4_
on storetypec3_.id=storetypec4_.storetypecode_id
left outer join
address address5_
on store1_.id=address5_.store_id
left outer join
storeitemcategorytranslation storeitemc6_
on storeitemc0_.id=storeitemc6_.storeitemcategory_id
left outer join
storeitemcategory_storeitem storeitems7_
on storeitemc0_.id=storeitems7_.storeitemcategory_id
left outer join
storeitem storeitem8_
on storeitems7_.storeitem_id=storeitem8_.id
left outer join
store store9_
on storeitem8_.store_id=store9_.id
left outer join
storeitemtranslation storeitemt10_
on storeitem8_.id=storeitemt10_.storeitem_id
where
storeitemc0_.id=?
All my tables will have translations tables and I am not sure how to get-around with this without using set.
Does anyone have similar experience?