hibernate exception: org.hibernate.AnnotationException: No identifier specified for entity: com..domain.idea.MAE_MFEView

Question

Why am I getting this exception?

package com.domain.idea;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.OneToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.hibernate.annotations.AccessType;

/**
 * object model for the view [InvestmentReturn].[vMAE_MFE]
 */
@Entity
@Table(name="vMAE_MFE", schema="InvestmentReturn")
@AccessType("field")
public class MAE_MFEView
{
    /**
     * trade property is a SuggestdTradeRecommendation object
     */
    @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY , cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST })
    @JoinColumn(name = "suggestedTradeRecommendationID")
    private SuggestedTradeRecommendation trade;

    /**
     * Most Adeverse Excursion value
     */
    private int MAE;

    public int getMAE()
    {
        return MAE;
    }

    /**
     * Most Favorable Excursion value
     */
    private int MFE;

    public int getMFE()
    {
        return MFE;
    }

    /**
     * @return trade property
     * see #trade
     */
    public SuggestedTradeRecommendation getTrade()
    {
        return trade;
    }
}

Update: I've changed my code to look like this:

package com.domain.idea;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.OneToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.hibernate.annotations.AccessType;

/**
 * object model for the view [InvestmentReturn].[vMAE_MFE]
 */
@Entity
@Table(name="vMAE_MFE", schema="InvestmentReturn")
@AccessType("field")
public class MAE_MFEView
{
    /**
     * trade property is a SuggestdTradeRecommendation object
     */
    @Id
    @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY , cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST })
    @JoinColumn(name = "suggestedTradeRecommendationID")
    private SuggestedTradeRecommendation trade;

    /**
     * Most Adeverse Excursion value
     */
    private int MAE;

    public int getMAE()
    {
        return MAE;
    }

    /**
     * Most Favorable Excursion value
     */
    private int MFE;

    public int getMFE()
    {
        return MFE;
    }

    /**
     * @return trade property
     * see #trade
     */
    public SuggestedTradeRecommendation getTrade()
    {
        return trade;
    }
}

but now I'm getting this exception:

Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: com.domain.idea.SuggestedTradeRecommendation, at table: vMAE_MFE, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(trade)]
    at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.getType(SimpleValue.java:292)
    at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.isValid(SimpleValue.java:276)
    at org.hibernate.mapping.RootClass.validate(RootClass.java:216)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validate(Configuration.java:1135)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1320)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:867)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:669)
    ... 145 more

Answer 1

You are missing a field annotated with @Id. Each @Entity needs an @Id - this is the primary key in the database.

If you don't want your entity to be persisted in a separate table, but rather be a part of other entities, you can use @Embeddable instead of @Entity.

If you want simply a data transfer object to hold some data from the hibernate entity, use no annotations on it whatsoever - leave it a simple pojo.

Update: In regards to SQL views, Hibernate docs write:

There is no difference between a view and a base table for a Hibernate mapping. This is transparent at the database level

Answer 2

For me, javax.persistence.Id should be used instead of org.springframework.data.annotation.Id. For anyone who encountered this issue, you can check if you imported the right Id class.

Answer 3

This error can be thrown when you import a different library for @Id than Javax.persistance.Id ; You might need to pay attention this case too

In my case I had

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.springframework.data.annotation.Id;

@Entity
public class Status {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private int id;

when I change the code like this, it got worked

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import javax.persistence.Id;

@Entity
public class Status {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private int id;

Answer 4

The code below can solve the NullPointerException.

@Id
@GeneratedValue
@Column(name = "STOCK_ID", unique = true, nullable = false)
public Integer getStockId() {
    return this.stockId;
}
public void setStockId(Integer stockId) {
    this.stockId = stockId;
}

If you add @Id, then you can declare some more like as above declared method.

Answer 5

I know sounds crazy but I received such error because I forget to remove

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

automatically generated by Eclipse JPA tool when a table to entities transformation I've done.

Removing the line above that solved the issue