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 Post subject: Unidir many-to-many with join table have "extra" attribute
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:40 pm 
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Is there an example showing a unidirectional many-to-many association mapping with a join table, where the join table contains not just the ids of the two sides of the association, but also an "extra" attribute field containing data pertaining to the association of these two enties?

I see an example with a "clean" link table containing only the two ids, but not one with an extra attribute.

That is, instead of your example in 7.3.4 of the Hibernate 3.2 manual:

Code:
create table Person ( personId bigint not null primary key )
create table PersonAddress (
personId bigint not null,
addressId bigint not null,
primary key (personId, addressId) )
create table Address ( addressId bigint not null primary key )


I have something like this:

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create table Person ( personId bigint not null primary key )
create table PersonAddress (
personId bigint not null,
addressId bigint not null,
preferenceWeight int not null,
primary key (personId, addressId) )
create table Address ( addressId bigint not null primary key )

I'd like to do the equivalent mapping in section 3.4 but capturing the preferenceWeight attribute in each collection element. How to do this?


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 Post subject: Re: Unidir many-to-many with join table have "extra" attribute
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:54 pm 
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Never mind. Google is my friend. :-)


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 Post subject: Re: Unidir many-to-many with join table have "extra" attribute
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:00 pm 
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It is usually easier to map the join table as a separate entity (eg. PersonAddress). If possible, use an surrogate id column and then use <many-to-one> to both Person and Address, and put a unique constraint on those two columns.


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 Post subject: Re: Unidir many-to-many with join table have "extra" attribute
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:20 pm 
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If possible, use an surrogate id column


Alas, not possible. I am using a composite key. This, of course, does not work because the two ID columns are repeated in the many-to-ones.

So what then?


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 Post subject: Re: Unidir many-to-many with join table have "extra" attribute
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:28 pm 
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Then use the composite key with <key-many-to-one>, but it will be harder and require more code to maintain the relationship. Or you can use a composite key with <key-property> and then map the <many-to-one>:s with insert="false" and update="false".

You can find more info here:
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/ ... ompositeid
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/ ... ompositeid


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 Post subject: Re: Unidir many-to-many with join table have "extra" attribute
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:32 pm 
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Or you can use a composite key with <key-property> and then map the <many-to-one>:s with insert="false" and update="false".


Yup. That's the solution! Thanks!


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