I'd love to see Max Ross continue on these posts. I've burned about 4
hrs now trying to get JDO owned, bidirectional relationships working.
It seems like every issue I fix, another pops up. Whack a mole...
I'm experiencing everything from:
- Child entities persisting, but not subsequently loading (even with
fetch groups, fetch depths)
- Bidirectional reference being lost on detachCopy
- Reconnecting a detached object throwing random errors in the
ArrayList wrapper
I'm tired of feeling my way around in the dark and would LOVE a full
example (CRUD, including detached entities). Barring that, Twig, here
I come.
Frustrated,
James
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Max Ross:
Hello hello and welcome to the very first installment of JDO/JPA
Snippets
That Work!
Creating A Bidrectional Owned One-To-Many
Suppose you're building a book catalog application and you want to
model
books and chapters. Books contain chapters. A chapter cannot exist
without
a book, so if you delete a book you want its chapters automatically
deleted
along with it. You also want to each chapter to have a reference to
the
book that owns it. Sounds like a bidrectional, owned, one-to-many
relationship is just the thing. First we'll set up our model objects
and
then we'll add some code to create a Book with 2 Chapters.
JPA:
@Entity
public class Book {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Key id;
private String title;
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "book", cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
private List<Chapter> chapters = new ArrayList<Chapter>();
// getters and setters
}
@Entity
public class Chapter {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Key id;
private String title;
private int numPages;
@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Book book;
// getters and setters
}
Now let's create a book with two chapters (we'll assume someone else
is
creating and closing an EntityManager named 'em' for us):
Book b = new Book();
b.setTitle("JPA 4eva");
Chapter c1 = new Chapter();
c1.setTitle("Intro");
c1.setNumPages(10);
b.getChapters().add(c1);
Chapter c2 = new Chapter();
c2.setTitle("Configuration");
c2.setNumPages(9);
b.getChapters().add(c2);
em.getTransaction().begin();
try {
em.persist(b);
em.getTransaction().commit();
} finally {
if (em.getTransaction().isActive()) {
em.getTransaction().rollback();
}
}
JDO:
@PersistenceCapable(identityType = IdentityType.APPLICATION,
detachable =
"true")
public class Book {
@PrimaryKey
@Persistent(valueStrategy = IdGeneratorStrategy.IDENTITY)
private Key id;
private String title;
@Persistent(mappedBy = "book")
@Element(dependent = "true")
private List<Chapter> chapters = new ArrayList<Chapter>();
// getters and setters
}
@PersistenceCapable(identityType = IdentityType.APPLICATION,
detachable =
"true")
public class Chapter {
@PrimaryKey
@Persistent(valueStrategy = IdGeneratorStrategy.IDENTITY)
private Key id;
private String title;
private int numPages;
@Persistent
private Book book;
// getters and setters
}
Now let's create a book with two chapters (we'll assume someone else
is
creating and closing a PersistenceManager named 'pm' for us):
Book b = new Book();
b.setTitle("JDO 4eva");
Chapter c1 = new Chapter();
c1.setTitle("Intro");
c1.setNumPages(10);
b.getChapters().add(c1);
Chapter c2 = new Chapter();
c2.setTitle("Configuration");
c2.setNumPages(9);
b.getChapters().add(c2);
pm.currentTransaction().begin();
try {
pm.makePersistent(b);
pm.currentTransaction().commit();
} finally {
if (pm.currentTransaction().isActive()) {
pm.currentTransaction().rollback();
}
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