Hibernate 继承关系配置

以Department和Employee实体为例。Developer和Tester都继承Employee。

Department类和Employee类和映射的声明：
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Developer类：

public class Developer extends Employee {
	private String develop;

	public Developer() {
	}
	public Developer(String name) {
		super(name);
	}
	// Getters and setters are omitted

Tester类：

public class Tester extends Employee {
	private String test;

	public Tester(){
	}

	public Tester(String name) {
		super(name);
	}
	// Getters and setters are omitted
}

[size=small]1. 整个继承关系映射到一张表(single-table-per-hierarchy)[/size]
优点：不管是查询父类还是子类，只需要查询一张表，性能比较好。
缺点：扩展性不好，当需要增加子类或者属性，我们需要往表中增加字段，很多字段都空置，不符合面向对象编程的思想。

修改Employee.hbm.xml

<class name="Employee" discriminator-value="0">
	<id name="id">
		<generator class="native"/>
	</id>
	<!-- 增加一个字段，以区别对应的是哪个实体 -->
	<discriminator column="type" type="string"/>
	<property name="name" length="20" not-null="true"/>
	<many-to-one name="department" column="depart_id" cascade="save-update" fetch="join" lazy="no-proxy" />

	<!-- Inheritance - Single-Table-Per-Hierarchy -->
	<subclass name="Developer" discriminator-value="3">
		<property name="develop" length="40"/>
	</subclass>

	<subclass name="Tester" discriminator-value="4">
		<property name="test" length="40"/>
	</subclass>
</class>

	Session s = null;
	Transaction tx = null;

	Department depart = new Department("FCI");
	Employee em1 = new Employee("John");
	em1.setDepartment(depart);
	Developer em2 = new Developer("Lucy");
	em2.setDepartment(depart);
	em2.setDevelop("Java");
	Tester em3 = new Tester("Lily");
	em3.setDepartment(depart);
	em3.setTest("Load runner");

	try {
		s = HibernateUtil.getSession();
		tx = s.beginTransaction();
		s.save(em1);
		s.save(em2);
		s.save(em3);
		tx.commit();
	} catch (HibernateException e) {
		tx.rollback();
		e.printStackTrace();
	} finally {
		s.close();
	}

[size=small]2. 每个类映射到一个表(joined-subclass)[/size]

每个子类实例的数据会放在两张表里：父类表（基本属性）和子类表（子类特有的属性)
优点：父类表中没有空置的字段。
缺点：查询子类数据需要连表查询（父类表和子类表），效率不高。
适合：子类较少，每个子类的属性都各不相同。

修改Employee.hbm.xml：

<class name="Employee">
	<id name="id">
		<generator class="native"/>
	</id>
	<property name="name" length="20" not-null="true"/>
	<many-to-one name="department" column="depart_id" cascade="save-update" fetch="join" lazy="no-proxy" />

	<!-- Inheritance -->
	<joined-subclass name="Developer">
		<key column="develop_id" foreign-key="id"/>
		<property name="develop" length="40"/>
	</joined-subclass>
	<joined-subclass name="Tester">
		<key column="test_id" foreign-key="id"/>		
		<property name="test" length="40"/>
	</joined-subclass>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

[size=small]3. 鉴别器和内联器结合[/size]

充分利用1和2的优点

Employee.hbm.xml:

<hibernate-mapping package="com.john.myhibernate.domain">

<class name="Employee" discriminator-value="0">
	<id name="id">
		<generator class="native"/>
	</id>
	<discriminator column="type" type="string"/>
	<property name="name" length="20" not-null="true"/>
	<many-to-one name="department" column="depart_id" cascade="save-update" fetch="join" lazy="no-proxy" />

	<!-- Inheritance -->
	<subclass name="Developer" discriminator-value="3">
		<property name="develop" length="40"/>
	</subclass>
	<subclass name="Tester" discriminator-value="4">
		<join table="my_tester">
			<key column="test_id" foreign-key="id"/>
			<property name="test" length="40"/>
		</join>
	</subclass>	
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

[size=small]4. 每个具体类映射一张独立表(union-subclass)[/size]

和2不同，这里子类的所有属性（包括从父类继承的）会保存到一张独立的表中。

Employee.hbm.xml:

<class name="Employee">
	<id name="id">
		<generator class="hilo"/>
	</id>
	<property name="name" length="20" not-null="true"/>
	<many-to-one name="department" column="depart_id" cascade="save-update" fetch="join" lazy="no-proxy" />

	<!-- Inheritance -->
	<union-subclass name="Developer" table="developer">
		<property name="develop" length="40"/>
	</union-subclass>
	<union-subclass name="Tester" table="tester">
		<property name="test" length="40"/>
	</union-subclass>	
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

这里的id生成器用的是hilo(或uuid)。
native（mysql里是自动增长）方式不可以：
id值会重复。
如Employee, Developer和Tester三张独立的表，每张表的id都是从1开始自增长的。
当查询id为1的Employee的时候，会查询到3个对象。