JPA Hibernate Annotation Issue

I have three Entities i’m modeling and am having issues with the associated annotations. I basically have a class that I intend on returning to the caller, a nested listed of Project’s and the Project can contain a nested list of Endpoint’s. It’s a top-level has-a one-to-many, then the nested one-to-many has two one-to-many’s.

I’ve played with @JoinColumn annotations, i’ve attempted to put a @ManyToOne on the other side of the OneToMany’s (but it doesn’t like that it’s a Long..). I’m just fairly new and unsure on how to do this. I think the mappedById is the solution, but i’m uncertain.

Main Issue: This code allows me to “save” to the database, but upon retrieval, the list of Project’s inside the DownDetectorPackage is empty.

A CascadeType.ALL throws referential integrity errors that I don’t completely understand.

@Data
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Entity
@Builder                                                                               
public class DownDetectorPackage {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private long id;

@OneToMany(mappedBy="id",fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private List<Project> projects;

@Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
private Date dateJobsLastRan;

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@Entity
@Data
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Builder
public class Project{
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private long id;
    private String projectName;
    @OneToMany(mappedBy="id")
    private List<Service> externalDependencies;
    @OneToMany(mappedBy="id")
    private List<Service> endpoints;
}

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@Entity
@Data
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Builder
public class Service {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;
    private String url;
    private Boolean endpointIsUp;
    private String serviceName;
}

Answer

You should be using @JoinColumn instead of mappedBy. MappedBy can be used when you have used @ManyToOne in the other class too, which you haven’t.

So your final class should look something like this (this is applicable for the other classes too which you have mentioned) :

public class DownDetectorPackage {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private long id;

@JoinColumn(name = "downDetectorPackageId")
@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private List<Project> projects;

@Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
private Date dateJobsLastRan;

Also, remember to state the parent object name in @JoinColumn annotation, since it would create a column for that foreign key.