one-way one-to-many throws Hibernate Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails - spring

Question

I have an application that teaches the user how to play various card games. The data model that gets persisted consists of a TrainingSession with a uni-directional one-to-many relationship with the Hands.
[EDIT] To clarify, a Hand has no existence outside the context of a TrainingSession (i.e they are created/destroyed when the TrainingSession is). Following the principals of Data Driven Design, the TrainingSession is treated as an aggregate root and therefore a single spring-data CrudRepository is used (i.e., no repository is created for Hand)
When I try to save a TrainingSession using a CrudRepository, I get: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (blackjack.hand, CONSTRAINT FKrpuxac6b80xc7rc98vt1euc3n FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES training_session (tsid))
My problem is the 'save(trainingSession)' operation via the CrudRepository instance. What I don't understand is why the error message states that FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES training_session (tsid)). That seems to be the cause of the problem but I cant figure out why this is the case or how to fix it. The relationship is uni-directional and nothing in the Hand class refers to the TrainingSession.
The code, minus all the getters and setters, is:
#Entity
public class TrainingSession {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Integer tsid;
private String strategy;
#OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
#JoinColumn(name="id")
private List<Hand> hands;
private int userId;
protected TrainingSession() {
}
public TrainingSession(int userId, Strategy strategy, List<Hand> hands) {
this.strategy = strategy.getClass().getSimpleName();
this.hands = hands;
this.userId = userId;
}
while Hand is
#Entity // This tells Hibernate to make a table out of this class
public class Hand {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Integer id;
private int p1;
private String p1s;
private int p2;
private String p2s;
private int d1;
private String d1s;
private int trials;
private int score;
public Hand() {
}

Answer 1

You need to save your TrainingSession and Hand objects first before saving the adding the hand objects to TrainingSession.
TrainingSession ts1 = new TrainingSession();
trainingSessionManager.save(ts1);
Hand hand1 = new Hand();
handManager.save(hand1);
Hand hand2 = new Hand();
handManager.save(hand2);
ts1.gethands().add(hand1);
ts1.gethands().add(hand2)
trainingSessionManager.save(ts1);
If you check your database you will find 3 tables TrainingSession, Hand and TrainingSession_Hand, The TrainingSession_Hand table references to both TrainingSession and Hand both. Therefore you need to save TrainingSession and hand before saving the relationship.

Answer 2

Found the problem. I was assuming that when spring-data set up the DB tables, it was able to figure out and set up the uni-directional 1-to-many relationship. Apparently that isn't the case. When I configure the relationship as bi-directional everything seems to work.
To fix things I:
removed from TrainingSession the #joincolumn annotation for hands
in Hands I added a TrainingSession field with a #ManyToOne annotation:
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(name = "tsid", nullable = false)
#OnDelete(action = OnDeleteAction.CASCADE)
private TrainingSession tsession;
I also added in the Hand class the getter/setter for tsession
I can now do a save of the entire aggregate construct using only a TrainingSessionRepository.