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 Post subject: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:23 am 
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Given a database structure as:
Code:
CREATE TABLE users (
   id             SERIAL            NOT NULL,
   name           CHARACTER VARYING NOT NULL,
   email          CHARACTER VARYING NOT NULL,
   password       CHARACTER VARYING NOT NULL,
   settings       JSONB             NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}' :: JSONB,
   permissions    JSONB             NOT NULL DEFAULT '{"allow": [], "deny":[]}' :: JSONB,
   groups         INTEGER []        NOT NULL DEFAULT ARRAY [] :: INT [],
   ...
);
CREATE TABLE groups (
   id          SERIAL            NOT NULL,
   name        CHARACTER VARYING NOT NULL,
   permissions JSONB             NOT NULL DEFAULT '{"allow": [], "deny": []}' :: JSONB,

   type        INTEGER           NOT NULL,
   state       INTEGER           NOT NULL,
   flags       BIGINT            NOT NULL,

   CONSTRAINT groups__pk PRIMARY KEY (id),
   CONSTRAINT groups__name__type__uniq UNIQUE (name, type)
);


There's a many-to-many mapping of "users" <-> "groups" through "users.groups" column which is an array of "groups.id". Is there any possibility to declare such a mapping programmatically with:
hibernate-core:4.3.11.Final
hibernate-entitymanager:4.3.11.Final

?


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 Post subject: Re: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:00 am 
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Due to lack of standardization in regards to column array, Hibernate does not offer a generic type for database array. You can write your own custom type, like this one.

As for the relation, there is nothing based on arrays either.


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 Post subject: Re: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:05 am 
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mihalcea_vlad wrote:
As for the relation, there is nothing based on arrays either.

I understand that there's no vendor-provided implementation for this kind of relationship binding. But is there a starting point to look at to write my own implementation for at least @OneToMany based on array column types like as for just array type itself you linked above?


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 Post subject: Re: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:15 am 
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You'll have to implement `UserCollectionType` and adapt the logic that's provided in that blog post that I mentioned you.


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 Post subject: Re: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:19 am 
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mihalcea_vlad wrote:
You'll have to implement `UserCollectionType` and adapt the logic that's provided in that blog post that I mentioned you.

As I've successfully implemented a raw Integer[] class field based on a database's ARRAY[] column, I've stuck with there's no mention of relationship in the blogpost you've linked. As I understand, I need to implement something like query builder proxy for this new UserType that would compile this special case's queries.

Code:
   @Type(type = "i.g.p.t.IntArrayType")
   @Column(name = "groups", nullable = false)
   private Integer[] groupIds = new Integer[]{};

   @OneToMany(targetEntity = Group.class)
   @JoinColumn(name = "groups")
   private List<Group> groups;

With this code:
- `groupIds` works perfectly just as planned (thanks, your link helped very much)
- `groups` raises SQLProgrammingException with both @JoinColumn(name = "groups") and @JoinColumn(referencedColumnName = "groups") that leads to the fact: query builder tries to query field "groups.groups" (which does not exist). While in this case LAZY loading strategy should produce
Code:
SELECT ... FROM groups WHERE id = any(?)  -- here "users.groups" value should be bound as the parameter value


With
Code:
   @OneToMany
   @JoinColumn(referencedColumnName = "groups", table = "users", name = "id")
   private List<Group> groups;

- org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Cannot find the expected secondary table: no users available for i.g.p.m.Group

Could you point me to the docs what should I implement on my own for this type of relationship?


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 Post subject: Re: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:27 am 
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For the @OneToMany, you'll have to implement the UserCollectionType, as I suggested you. There is no resource that I can give you for that. I'm not sure if that's going to work or not.


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 Post subject: Re: Any kind of relationship through PostgreSQL array
PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:42 am 
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Well, for now I've just ended with just PG ARRAY[] <-> UserType type declaration. Still can't declare a relational mapping that is based on this type. Will stay at the query-time binding approach for now.


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