JPA Persist parent and child with one to many relationship

Question

I want to persist parent entity with 20 child entities, my code is below

Parent Class

@OneToMany(mappedBy = \"parentId\")
private Collection

        

Answer 1

I would let the parent persist it's own children

package com.greg;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;

@Entity(name = "PARENT")
public class Parent {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "NAME")
    private String name;

    @Column(name = "DESCRIPTION")
    private String description;

    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
    @JoinColumn(name = "parent", referencedColumnName = "id", nullable = false)
    private List children = new ArrayList();

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    public List getChildren() {
        return children;
    }

    public void setChildren(List children) {
        this.children = children;
    }

}