Eclipse error on mapping with @EmbeddedId

Question

I have an entity with composite key so I use the @Embeddable and @EmbeddedId annotations. Embeddable class looks like this :

@Embeddable
public class DitaAdm         


        

Answer 1

Thought I would post the solution that I found which is compliant with the JPA 2.0 specification and appears to function the same way.

First off, the JPA 2.0 specification can be found here: JSR-000317 Persistence Specification for Eval 2.0 Eval. The relevant section would be 2.4.1 "Primary Keys Corresponding to Derived Identities"

Here is an example using the classes you specified:

Embedded Id Class:

@Embeddable
public class DitaAdminAccountSkillPK implements Serializable {

    //No further annotations are needed for the properties in the embedded Id.

    //Needs to match the type of the id of your DitaAdmin object. I added 'Id' to the end of the property name to be more explicit.
    //Making the assumption here that DitaAdmin has a simple Integer primary key.
    private Integer adminId;

    //Needs to match the type of the id of your DitaAccount object. I added 'Id' to the end of the property name to be more explicit.
    //Making the assumption here that DitaAccount has a simple Integer primary key.
    private Integer accountId;


    //I'm adding a third property to the primary key as an example
    private String accountName;

    //constructor, getters, setters...

    //hashCode() and equals() overrides
}

"Dependent" Entity Class:

@Entity
public class DitaAdminAccountSkill {

    @EmbeddedId
    //Any overrides to simple Id properties should be handled with an attribute override
    @AttributeOverride(name = "accountName", column = @Column(name = "account_name"))
    private DitaAdminAccountSkillPK id;

    //MapsId refers to the name of the property in the embedded Id
    @MapsId("adminId")
    @JoinColumn(name="admin_id")
    @ManyToOne
    private DitaAdmin admin;

    @MapsId("accountId")
    @JoinColumn(name="account_id")
    @ManyToOne
    private DitaAccount account;

    //constructor, getters, setters...
}

"Parent" Entity class:

public class DitaAdmin {

    @Id
    private Integer id;

    //...

    //Now your mappedBy attribute can refer to the admin object defined on DitaAdminAccountSkill which is also part of the Primary Key
    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy="admin")
    private List accountSkills;

    //...
}