Hiberante Collection Mapping Samples

Collection mapping table

HBM Element	Java Interface	Java Implementation
	Set	HashSet
with order	SortedSet	TreeSet
	List	ArrayList
,	Collection	ArrayList
	Map	HashMap
	SortedMap	TreeMap
,	N/A	array

Sample Tables

CREATE TABLE `core_sample_company` (
`companyId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`companyName` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`description` varchar(1024) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`companyId`)
);

CREATE TABLE `core_sample_role` (
`roleId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`roleName` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`companyId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`description` varchar(1024) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`roleId`)
);

CREATE TABLE `core_sample_user` (
`userId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`userName` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`companyId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`defaultRoleId` decimal(18,0) default NULL,
`description` varchar(1024) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`userId`)
);

CREATE TABLE `core_sample_user_role` (
`userId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`roleId` decimal(18,0) NOT NULL,
`pripority` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`userId`,`roleId`)
);

HBM defintion

The definiton of , , is similar.

Defines a collection whose element type is simple data type.

Query HQL: select c.id, c.name, r from SampleCompany c left join c.roleNames r

Defines a collection whose element type is another mapped java class

Query HQL: select c.id, c.name, r.name from SampleCompany c left join c.role r

Pay attention that key column is a foreign column of SampleRole table.

Defines a list with list-index

is not a popular element. It request a index column in table. The index column is the index of java List, it has to be a sequence starts from 0.

The benifit of is it alwasy sorts list by index column. However, It is hard to resort the list. I tried remove a role from role list and add it to another poisition. When save the role list, an exception throwed:

java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Duplicate entry 'user001-role003 for key 1

This should be a hibernate bug.

Defines a bag with relationship table

• Key column is foreign column from relationship table to current table(SampleRole>
• many-to-many sub column is foreign column from relationship table to target table (SampleUser)

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