Unable to persist child class records using spring data jpa - spring-boot

Question

Problem
1)I created a class employee that extends Person.I can persist employee records and not person.
Solution I implemented
1)Created modal classes Employee and Person.
Modal Classes
Employee
#Entity
#Table(name = "employee",
indexes = {#Index(name = "username", columnList = "username", unique = true)})
public class BaseEmployee extends Person {
public static final String OBJECT_KEY = "EMPLOYEE";
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private Long id;
// Who created this baseEmployee
private String userId;
// #Indexed(unique = true)
private String username;
#Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private ROLE role;
#Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private STATUS status;
private String designation;
Person
public class Person extends AbstractEntity {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String contact;
private String email;
#Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private GENDER gender;
private String imageId;
private String address;
private String locationId;
private DateTime dob;
private double[] location;
private String pinCode;
Employee Controller
#PostMapping
ApiResponse<BaseEmployee> post(#RequestBody CreateEntry<BaseEmployee> baseEmployeeCreateEntry) {
BaseEmployee baseEmployeeToCreate = baseEmployeeCreateEntry.getEntry();
baseEmployeeToCreate.setStatus(STATUS.ACTIVE);
baseEmployeeToCreate = employeeService.post(baseEmployeeToCreate);
if (baseEmployeeToCreate != null)
authenticationService.setPassword(baseEmployeeToCreate, baseEmployeeCreateEntry.getPassword());
return ApiResponse.success().message("Created Successfully!").object(baseEmployeeToCreate);
}
public class CreateEntry<T> {
private T entry;
private String password;
Service
#Override
public <E extends BaseEmployee> E post(E employee) {
employee = employeeRepository.save(employee);
System.out.println(employee);
LOG.info("Admin data" + employee);
LOG.info("PUT employee {} {} {}", employee.getId(), employee.getFirstName(), employee.getEmail());
return employee;
}
Repository
public interface EmployeeRepository extends JpaRepository<BaseEmployee, Long> {}
#Expected Output
The Employee class Columns and Person class Columns
#Output Shown
mysql> select * from employee;
id | created_at | created_by | last_modified_at | last_modified_by | version | designation | role | status | user_id | username |
1 | 1519624346694 | anonymousUser | 1519624346694 | anonymousUser | 0 | csdcs | ADMIN | ACTIVE | string | admin |
3 | 1519624856504 | anonymousUser | 1519624856504 | anonymousUser | 0 | csdcs | ADMIN | ACTIVE | string | admin1 |
4 | 1519626598478 | anonymousUser | 1519626598478 | anonymousUser | 0 | csdcs | ADMIN | ACTIVE | string | admin2 |
Can anyone guide me what I am doing wrong.Thankx in advance?

Answer 1

Can you try adding #MappedSuperclass to Person entity?