I have Class A with an association with 2 instances of Class B.

Class A{
int id; // native generator used here
int commonID; // assigned and common to both instances of B.
B internal;
B external;
}

Upon storing Class A, I would like to persist A into 2 rows of same table as follows:
ROW1: id + commonID + internalB's values
ROW2: id + commonID + externalB's values

Is this possible? I was trying component mapping but I didn't think that the ID part will work.

Any help or suggestions are much appreciated.

Madhu

Maybe using a custom persister?

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am not sure if I represented my situation accurately.

Upon storing Class A, I would like to persist A into 2 rows of same table as follows:
ROW1: id + commonID + internalB's values
ROW2: id + commonID + externalB's values

The "id" column in ROW 1 and ROW2 will have different values because I am using native generator.

Does your suggestion still hold good?

If so, I will look into it.

I read that there is information on this aspect on the EntityPersister.java and not much elsewhere. Is this still true?


thanks
Madhu

Yes, but I've never played with persister and such exotic cases, so I may be wrong.