@OneToMany and composite primary keys?

Question

I\'m using Hibernate with annotations (in spring), and I have an object which has an ordered, many-to-one relationship which a child object which has a composite primary key

Answer 1

The Manning book Java Persistence with Hibernate has an example outlining how to do this in Section 7.2. Fortunately, even if you don't own the book, you can see a source code example of this by downloading the JPA version of the Caveat Emptor sample project (direct link here) and examining the classes Category and CategorizedItem in the auction.model package.

I'll also summarize the key annotations below. Do let me know if it's still a no-go.

ParentObject:

@Entity
public class ParentObject {
   @Id @GeneratedValue
   @Column(name = "parentId", nullable=false, updatable=false)
   private Long id;

   @OneToMany(mappedBy="parent", fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
   @IndexColumn(name = "pos", base=0)
   private List attrs;

   public Long getId () { return id; }
   public List getAttrs () { return attrs; }
}

ChildObject:

@Entity
public class ChildObject {
   @Embeddable
   public static class Pk implements Serializable {
       @Column(name = "parentId", nullable=false, updatable=false)
       private Long objectId;

       @Column(nullable=false, updatable=false)
       private String name;

       @Column(nullable=false, updatable=false)
       private int pos;
       ...
   }

   @EmbeddedId
   private Pk id;

   @ManyToOne
   @JoinColumn(name="parentId", insertable = false, updatable = false)
   @org.hibernate.annotations.ForeignKey(name = "FK_CHILD_OBJECT_PARENTID")
   private ParentObject parent;

   public Pk getId () { return id; }
   public ParentObject getParent () { return parent; }
}