html1007无标题,spring - EL1007E: Property or field 'classes' cannot be found on null - while trying to ...

I am trying to get data from multiple tables in Spring Data JPA.

User.java

@Entity

@Table(name = "user")

public class User{

@Id

@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.TABLE)

private Long id;

private String username;

private String password;

//Getters and setters generated

@ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = { CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.PERSIST })

private List classes;

Classes.java

@Entity

public class Classes {

@Id

@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.TABLE)

private Long id;

private String name;

@Lob

private String description;

@ManyToMany(mappedBy = "classes", fetch = FetchType.EAGER, cascade = { CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.PERSIST })

private List user;

These entities generate table named as 'user_classes' and fields as following classes_id and user_id

I am trying to display name of classes that belong to that particular user.

As I have my models designed as shown above I am trying to do it like this

My table in database looks like this

So class and user do exist.

But I am facing this error

EL1007E: Property or field 'classes' cannot be found on null

I am not sure what I am doing wrong?