Re: Hibernate foreign key as primary key

From:
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:03:02 +0200
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<4E3EB736.2010208@googlemail.com>
On 07.08.2011 13:38, Lionel wrote:

This may be a little off topic but I'm sure there are some experts in here.

I'm having some troubles getting using a foreign key as a primary key.
In this post I will use the most simple issue I'm having trouble with.

Here's some snippets (pharmacy project):

public abstract class AbstractDrugModel
{
private String name;
private IntravascularDrug ivDrug;
}

public class IntravascularDrug
{
private AbstractDrugModel drug;
}

Note 1: I am only just introducing hibernate, previously I did the
databases manually and in that scenario IntravascularDrug did not
contain an AbstractDrugModel instance.

Note 2: ivDrug can be null.

In my mapping files I have (at this point in time, I've tried other
approaches):

<hibernate-mapping>
<class
lazy="false"
name="tciworks.drugmodel.IntravascularDrug"
table="IntravascularDrug">
<composite-id>
<key-many-to-one name="drug" column="DrugName"/>
</composite-id>
...
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

<hibernate-mapping>
<class
dynamic-insert="false"
dynamic-update="false"
lazy="false"
mutable="true"
name="tciworks.drugmodel.AbstractDrugModel"
optimistic-lock="version"
polymorphism="implicit"
select-before-update="false"
table="Drug">

<id column="Name" name="name"/>
<discriminator column="DrugModelType"/>
...
<many-to-one


Why "many to one"? Isn't this a "one to one" relationship? At least
from the looks of your classes it seems to be so.

cascade="all"
column="DrugName"
name="intravascularDrug"
not-null="false"
unique="true"/>

<subclass
discriminator-value="USER_DEFINED"
name="tciworks.drugmodel.userdefined.UserDefinedDrugModel"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

This example includes only one concrete sub-class of AbstractDrugModel,
there are others. Drug name is unique hence being used as PK.

When I have Hibernate create the database tables everything appears
fine, but on save, it seems to be saving IntravascularDrug first and
hence gives the following error:

Sun Aug 07 21:03:25 EST 2011: ERROR logExceptions, Cannot add or update
a child row: a foreign key constraint fails
(`tciworkssqlextension`.`intravasculardrug`, CONSTRAINT
`FK19E96D413937CB47` FOREIGN KEY (`DrugName`) REFERENCES `drug` (`Name`))

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should do this?


With Oracle you could mark the FK as "deferrable initially deferred"
which basically means that the constraint is checked at commit time and
not when updates happen. Maybe your RDBMS supports this feature as well.

My Hibernate foo is a bit rusty but I think that is the only way to
solve this with the current class layout because if you have a
bidirectional one to one relationship one record has to be inserted into
the database first - which means that the other one isn't there. And if
the FK field is not allowed to be NULL on both sides then this can never
work (unless, again, the RDBMS supports deferred constraints).

I don't know if Hibernate is smart enough to figure insertion order if
one of the two sides is allowed to be NULL. What do the docs say?

Kind regards

    robert

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