I have two entity bean :
#Entity
public class User {
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private Long id;
#OneToMany(mappedBy="user", cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
private List<Comment> comments = new ArrayList<Comment>();
//SOME OTHER CLASS VARIABLES
//GETTERS AND SETTERS
}
and my Comment class is like this :
#Entity
public class Comment {
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private Long id;
private String title;
private String content;
#ManyToOne
private User user
//SOME OTHER CLASS VARIABLES
//GETTERS AND SETTERS
}
now I know that I can get the User Object from session and set the user for my comment like this in order to be able to use the join feature in JPA:
commentObject.setUser(TheSessionGrabedUserObject/UserObjectWhichHasFetchedFromDbUsingUserId);
but as long as I have the userId for my user Object I do not need to do this.
I'm looking for a way to insert this foreignKey into my comment table without getting the User Object from session or maybe query to database to fetch it first !
how I'm gonna do it using JPQL ?
You can use the entityManager.getReference() method. In your case:
entityManager.getReference(User.class, userId);
This will not perform any DB query, but will give you a User instance with only the ID populated, and you can pass that to commentObject.setUser().
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I have a spring boot JPA project with an entity called Customers and another one CustomerReports
#Entity
public class Customers {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy= GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private int id;
private String Name;
#JsonIgnore
#OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
#JoinColumn(name = "customer_id", referencedColumnName = "id")
private Reports reports;
//getter and setters..etc
}
#Entity
public class CustomerReports {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy= GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private int id;
private BigDecimal monthlyPayment;
//done
#JsonIgnore
#OneToOne(mappedBy = "reports")
private Customers customers;
//constructors, getters...etc.
}
I want whenever I insert a Customer, a report to also be generated for that customer. The column "monthlyPayment" in reports is also generated through a reference from another table so I don't want to insert those columns manually if that makes sense.
Is there a way to do that? I'm not sure what to google so it would be great if anyone can give me an idea
If I understand your question properly, you can derive CustomerReports entity based on Customers via simple java utility method & then call save if you are using jparepository :
CustomerReports customerReports=reportUtil(customerEntity);
jpaRepository.save(customerEntity);
jpaRepository.save(customerReports);
...
private CustomerReports reportUtil(Customers customerEntity){
/*Derive values for CustomerReports based on Customers & return*/
}
Or if you don't want to do by this way then check if your underlying database support triggers which you can use for inserting data into CustomerReports while doing insert to Customers
I have read about the use of #MapsId and #PrimaryKeyJoinColumn annotations, which sounds like a great options. I have two tables (UserList and UserInformation) which have a child, parent relationship, respectively; both classes below are abbreviated to just include the relevant columns. UserInformation's primary key value is always null and does not take the value of its parent column.
User Class
#Entity
#Data
#Table(name = "user_list")
public class UserList {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Integer id;
// List of foreign keys connecting different entities
#OneToOne(mappedBy = "user")
#MapsId("id")
private UserInformation userInfo;
}
UserInformation Class
#Entity
#Data
#Table(name = "user_information")
public class UserInformation implements Serializable {
#Id
private Integer userId;
#OneToOne
private UserList user;
}
I would prefer to not use an intermediary class if possible. I'm not tied to MapsId or even this implementation if there is a better solution.
Thanks!
The question is not very clear to me, but I think you could improve the following in the modeling of the entity:
The #column annotation can only be omitted when the class parameter is called exactly the same as the database column, taking into account the table name nomenclature, could it be that the column is user_id ?, if so the id parameter should be :
#Id
#column(name="USER_ID")
private Integer userId;
In the user entity being id, it will match the DB ID field so the #column annotation is not necessary
I am using an #Entity with a CrudRepository to create an entry in my MySQL database, and I was wondering at what point the #GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) execute and generate the auto increment value?
#Entity
#Table(name = "all_contacts")
public class Contact {
//Ideally this would be set as foreign key to application's user schema
private long userId;
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column( name="contactid")
private long contactId;
#NotNull
private String name;
//getters and setters
}
//
public interface ContactRepository extends CrudRepository<Contact, Long> { }
I ask because I want to access the value of the contactId through its getter, but do I have to wait until the ContactRepository.save() is called?
We can't know the new assigned id of that entity prior to executing the SQL INSERT statement.
So, yes you need to ContactRepository.save() or any command that trigger SQL INSERT statement before can get that id. But save is better because it is guaranteed that it will always return ID.
We get the generated value once SQL insert statement is executed. We can't know the value is being assinged before save(). GenerationType.AUTO number generator generates automatic object IDs for entity objects and this generated numeric value is used for primary key field.
#Entity
public class Entity {
#Id #GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO) int id;
}
I'm working with Spring App, so to work with DB I use Spring Data JPA. Firstly I saved an object. And after some time I need to update this object in the table. But at this moment my object contains one field which is null. But I don't want to update this field with null. So my question is how to prevent updating fields with null? Maybe there is an annotation or some property to solve my problem.My entity:
#Entity
#Table(name = "users")
#Getter
#Setter
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor
public class User {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "user_id")
private Long id;
#NotNull
#Column(name = "user_name")
#Field
private String username;
#NotNull
#Column(name = "user_identity")
private String identity;
#Column(name="user_image")
private String image;
#Column(name="user_joined")
private String date;
#Column(name="user_origin")
private String origin;
#Column(name="user_sub")
private String sub;
I save and update this entity with implementation of JpaRepository:
#Repository
public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, Long>
it looks like this:
#Autowired
private UserRepository userRepository;
....
userRepository.save(user);
I've saved my object with not null sub-field. And now I want to update some fields of saved entity, but not sub field, which is null in current object. I wonder if there is any possibility to avoid changing user_sub field to null?
You can add #DynamicUpdate annotation to your User class. This will ignore the fields whose values are null. You can simply do like:
//other annotations
#DynamicUpdate
public class User {
// other codes inside class
}
You can follow a good example from Mkyong's site.
Thanks, guys. I found the solution: #Query will help to update fields that I need
I have two tables. I want to make between them relationship, but the thing is that the child table connects to an attribute in a parent node, which is not a PK. How can I assign a non-PK field as a FK for a table?
Here are the tables. User Information:
#Entity
#Table(name="user")
public class userinformation implements Serializable {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column(name="USER_ID")
private int uID;
#Column(name="LIB_ID")
private String libID;
//Other attributes
}
Lib Information
#Entity
#Table(name="libinfo")
public class Auth {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column(name="AUTH_ID")
private int authID;
#Column(name="LIB_ID")
private String lib_ID;
//Other attributes
}
They both should be linked through libID (surely unique). Any idea how to implement it correctly?
Given:
class User {
#Column(name = "lib_id")
private String libID;
}
you must map the Auth entity as:
class Auth {
#JoinColumn(name = "lib_id", referencedColumnName = "lib_id")
#ManyToOne
private User user;
}
Basically, referencedColumnName is used to inform the JPA provider that it should use a column other than the primary key column of the referenced entity (which is used by default with #ManyToOne mappings).