Thanks for the response Armin. Obviously the class names were changed to protect the innocent :) I did have a typo in my inverse-foreign-key field that you noted. I made some notes below, but the suggestions that you had still don't seem to work. I have re-created a new project using just the Shape, Square, and Side classes, with one servlet. I can send the three class files, one servlet file, and the repository.xml if you think it will help.
Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: Armin Waibel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:19 PM To: OJB Developers List Subject: Re: Persisting Inheritance.. Hi Wes, sure that you post the real class-descriptors? You specify 'SequenceManagerNativeImpl' as sequence manager, but in that case you have to declare the identity fields with access="readonly" to make the id generation work properly. In your posted class-descriptor's you don't do so > <class-descriptor > class="model.Shape" > table="shape" > > > <field-descriptor > name="id" > column="shape_id" > jdbc-type="BIGINT" > primarykey="true" > autoincrement="true" > /> So please add this attribute to existing class-descriptor or change the used sequence manager. http://db.apache.org/ojb/docu/guides/sequencemanager.html#Identity+based +sequence+manager I added the access="readonly" attribute, but then I get sql like this: INSERT INTO side (a_id) VALUES (?) ....does the foreign key in this table have to allow nulls? In Square you don't specify a separate field for the super field FK of Shape, instead you set the PK field of Square as FK of Shape. This will cause trouble, because each table use indenpendent identity column id generation and this will cause number conflicts. Did you try to introduce a separate super-FK field in Square as described as "second possibility" in the docs? http://db.apache.org/ojb/docu/guides/advanced-technique.html#Mapping+Cla sses+on+Multiple+Joined+Tables I'm not sure but there could be a bug in the docs, think it's not recommended to use the PK field as FK field of the anonymous super field. I tried this method, but still get the same problem. Here is the output: Shape: Id shape_info ------------------- -3 shape -9 shape Square: Id parent_id square_info ------------------------------- -2 -3 square -8 -9 square Side: -4 -2 -5 -2 -6 -2 -7 -2 -10 -8 -11 -8 -12 -8 -13 -8 When I try to retrieve the objects, the join still fails. Another strange thing is that you declare in Shape a 1:n reference to Side, the inverse-foreignkey refer to a field 'side', but in class Side I can't find a FK field called 'side'. This was a typo, the inverse-foreignkey should have been 'shape'. regards, Armin Lemke, Wesley wrote: > Looks like the list doesn't allow attachments, if anyone wants to see > the diagram, it is here: > http://leadgroupinc.com/gallery/DrunkOMatic/diagram.jpg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lemke, Wesley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Persisting Inheritance.. > > > I have already posted this to the user list, but was unable to resolve > this issue. I then started looking into the OJB code, and have > narrowed the problem down, but still need some help. Here is the > situation: > > I have 3 classes defined as follows: > > public class Shape { > Long id; > String shapeInfo = "shape"; > List sides = new ArrayList(); > ... > } > public class Square extends Shape { > Long id; > String squareInfo = "square"; > ... > } > public class Side { > Long id; > Shape shape; > ... > } > > A simple class diagram is attached. > Here is the repository.xml file: > > <jdbc-connection-descriptor > jcd-alias="default" > default-connection="true" > platform="Db2" > jdbc-level="1.0" > jndi-datasource-name="jdbc/AffinityDS" > batch-mode="false" > > > <sequence-manager > className="org.apache.ojb.broker.util.sequence.SequenceManagerNativeIm > pl > "> > <attribute attribute-name="autoNaming" > attribute-value="true"/> > </sequence-manager> > </jdbc-connection-descriptor> > > <class-descriptor > class="model.Shape" > table="shape" > > > <field-descriptor > name="id" > column="shape_id" > jdbc-type="BIGINT" > primarykey="true" > autoincrement="true" > /> > <field-descriptor > name="shapeInfo" > column="shape_info" > jdbc-type="VARCHAR" > /> > <collection-descriptor > name="sides" > element-class-ref="model.Side" > auto-delete="true" > auto-update="true" > > > <inverse-foreignkey field-ref="side" /> > </collection-descriptor> > </class-descriptor> > > <class-descriptor > class="model.Square" > table="square" > > > <field-descriptor > name="id" > column="square_id" > jdbc-type="BIGINT" > primarykey="true" > autoincrement="true" > /> > <field-descriptor > name="squareInfo" > column="square_info" > jdbc-type="VARCHAR" > /> > <reference-descriptor name="super" > class-ref="model.Shape" > auto-retrieve="true" > auto-update="true" > auto-delete="true" > > > <foreignkey field-ref="id"/> > </reference-descriptor> > </class-descriptor> > > <class-descriptor > class="model.Side" > table="side" > > > <field-descriptor > name="id" > column="side_id" > jdbc-type="BIGINT" > primarykey="true" > autoincrement="true" > /> > <field-descriptor > name="shape" > column="shape_id" > jdbc-type="BIGINT" > access="anonymous" > /> > <reference-descriptor name="shape" class-ref="model.Shape"> > <foreignkey field-ref="shape"/> > </reference-descriptor> > </class-descriptor> > > Here is the code I am using: > > broker.beginTransaction(); > Square square = new Square(); > for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { > Side side = new Side(); > square.addSide(side); > side.setShape(square); > } > broker.store(square); > broker.commitTransaction(); > > Here is what the database looks like after I run this code: > > Shape: > shape_id shape_info > -3 shape > > > Square: > square_id square_info > -3 square > > > Side: > side_id shape_id > -4 -2 > -5 -2 > -6 -2 > -7 -2 > -8 -2 > > > As you can see the foreign key in the Side table is incorrect (or the > foreign keys in the shape/square tables are incorrect). When you try > to retrieve the Square object, the join will fail. I have tracked > this down to this area of the code (OJB 1.0.1, > org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerImpl.java, line 1033 or > so): > > for (int i = 0; i < objFkFields.length; i++) > { > fld = objFkFields[i]; > /* > arminw: > we set the FK value when the extracted PK fields from the > referenced object are not null at all > or if null, the FK field was not a PK field of target object too. > Should be ok, because the values of the extracted PK field values > should never be null and never > change, so it doesn't matter if the target field is a PK too. > */ > if(refPkValues != null || !fld.isPrimaryKey()) > { > //Comment by me: This is where the key gets changed. It also > looks like the keys > //to the Side objects get changed, but they don't get > persisted to the database correctly.... > fld.getPersistentField().set(targetObject, refPkValues != null > ? > refPkValues[i].getValue(): null); > } > } > > See my comment above in the code (I believe they are correct). > > > Can anyone offer any assistance or guidance on what the problem could > be? I've been working on this issue (in different ways) for a few > weeks now. 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