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How to stop Hibernate from eagerly fetching a relationship when it is mapped using a column (referencedColumnName) different than the primary key?

I'm mapping a relationship that does not use the entity's primary key. Using "referencedColumnName" with a column different than the primary key causes hibernate to eagerly fetch the association, by issuing an extra select, even when it's tagged with FetchType.LAZY.
My goal is to make it behave like a regular mapping, meaning it wouldn't issue an extra query every time I need to query the main entity.
I have already tried using #LazyToOne(LazyToOneOption.NO_PROXY), which sorts out the problem, but it does not operate well with Jackson's (JSON parsing library) module "jackson-datatype-hibernate5", which skips hibernate lazy proxies when serializing the results.
Here is a scenario almost like the one I have that causes the problem:
Entities:
#Entity(name = "Book")
#Table(name = "book")
public class Book
implements Serializable {
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private Long id;
private String title;
private String author;
#NaturalId
private String isbn;
//Getters and setters omitted for brevity
}
#Entity(name = "Publication")
#Table(name = "publication")
public class Publication {
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private Long id;
private String publisher;
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(
name = "isbn",
referencedColumnName = "isbn"
)
private Book book;
#Column(
name = "price_in_cents",
nullable = false
)
private Integer priceCents;
private String currency;
//Getters and setters omitted for brevity
}
Repository (Spring-Data, but you could try directly with the EntityManager):
#Repository
public interface PublicationRepository extends JpaReadRepository <Publication, Long>
{
#Query ("SELECT d FROM Publication d WHERE d.publisher = ?1 ")
Optional <Publication> findByPublisher (String isbn);
}
Thanks

The only way to achieve what you are looking for is by moving the annotatation #Id to the isbn property.
You can leave the #GeneratedValue on the autoincrement property.
Notes:
1 - Make sure that your equals/hc are following the OID(Object ID) on your domain case the "NaturalId" ISBN.
2 - It will be good to ensure if possible on DB level that your natural ID has unique contraint on it.

How to depict joins with #Query annotation in Spring JPA Repository method

I am using Spring-Boot with JPA and a MySQL backend. Now I got quite confused about the repositories Spring-Boot provides. I know these are quite powerful (and seem to be quite useful since they can shorten your code a lot). Still, I do not understand how to represent Joins within them, since the result-set should be a combination of specified attributes in the select of a few Entities.
Now let's assume we have three tables Book, Author, AuthorOfBook, where the last one is simply connecting Book and Author by a combined Primary key. I guess we had the following Java-Classes:
Entity Book:
#Entity
#Table(name="BOOK")
public class Book {
#Id #GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column(name = "ID")
private int id;
#Column(name = "TITLE")
private String title;
}
Entity Author
#Entity
#Table(name="AUTHOR")
public class Author {
#Id #GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column(name = "ID")
private int id;
#Column(name = "LASTNAME")
private String lastname;
#Column(name = "FIRSTNAME")
private String firstname;
//Let's assume some getters and setters and a constructor
}
Entity AuthorOfBook:
#Entity
#Table(name="BOOK")
public class Book {
#EmbeddedId
private AuthorOfBookId pk;
}
An Embedded ID
#Embeddable
public class AuthorOfBookId implements Serializable {
private int authorId;
private int bookId;
}
Repository
#Repository
public interface AuthorOfBookRepository extends JpaRepository<,AuthorOfBookId> {
}
Now how would I represent that query:
SELECT b.name, a.firstname, a.lastname from AuthorOfBook ab inner join Book b on b.id = ab.book_id inner join Author a on a.id = ab.author_id where a.lastname = :lastname;
in my repository? I know the signature would need to be like
#Query([the query string from above])
public (...) findAuthorAndBookByAuthorLastname(#Param("lastname") String lastname);
but I cannot make out what Type the return would be like. What is that method returning? (simply AuthorOfBook would not work I guess)

You don't want AuthorOfBook as a separate Entity. Book should have a field of type Author as a #ManyToOne relationship. That way, given any Book, you can find the author's details.

If you want to handle audits fields you can do something like this:
Audit class
#Embeddable
public class Audit {
#Column(name = "created_on")
private Timestamp createdOn;
#Column(name = "updated_on")
private Timestamp updatedOn;
#Column(name = "is_deleted")
private Boolean isDeleted;
//getters and setters
}
AuditListener to update automatically audits fields
public class AuditListener {
private Long loggedUser = 1001L;
/**
* Method to set the fields createdOn, and isDeleted when an entity is persisted
* #param auditable
*/
#PrePersist
public void setCreatedOn(Auditable auditable) {
Audit audit = auditable.getAudit();
if (audit == null) {
audit = new Audit();
auditable.setAudit(audit);
}
audit.setIsDeleted(Boolean.FALSE);
audit.setCreatedOn(Timestamp.from(Instant.now()));
}
/**
* Method to set the fields updatedOn and updatedBy when an entity is updated
* #param auditable
*/
#PreUpdate
public void setUpdatedOn(Auditable auditable) {
Audit audit = auditable.getAudit();
audit.setUpdatedOn(Timestamp.from(Instant.now()));
}
}
And add this to the entities
#EntityListeners(AuditListener.class)
public class Book implements Auditable {
#Embedded
private Audit audit;

#Column and #Enumerated doesn't work in embeded entity

I have main entity:
#Entity
#Table(name = "partners")
public class Partner {
#ElementCollection
#CollectionTable(
name = "external_login",
joinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "partner_id")
)
private List<ExternalLogin> externalLogins;
...
}
And ExternalLogin is embeded entity
#Embeddable
public class ExternalLogin {
#Column(name = "type")
#Enumerated(value = EnumType.STRING)
private ExternalLoginType type;
#Column(name = "login")
private String login;
#Column(name = "password_value")
private String passwordValue;
}
public enum ExternalLoginType {
ABC;
}
#Column and #Enumerated not works in ExternalLogin entity.
For example in query will be external_login.passwordValue instead of external_login.password_value.
#Enumerated(value = EnumType.STRING) doesn't work too. Hibernate is trying to get int value of filed instead string.
Can anyone help me?

You misuse annotation #Embeddable. See description in oracle docs https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/Embeddable.html
Defines a class whose instances are stored as an intrinsic part of an owning entity and share the identity of the entity. Each of the persistent properties or fields of the embedded object is mapped to the database table for the entit
#Embeddable annotation makes sense only for singular assotiation fields. Annotating list fields as #Embeddable is wrong.
Just replace
#Embeddable
public class ExternalLogin {
to
#Entity
public class ExternalLogin {

I had exactly the same issue just now.
The solution for me ended up being adding
#Access(FIELD)
To the Embeddable object.

efficiently loading collection of collections from database in hibernate

I have an web application with hibernate which manages data in multiple languages. Currently basically every request generates a shower of select statements on the languagetranslations. The models are roughly as following:
Data <1-1> Placeholder <1-many> languageTranslation <many-1> language
If I query for all/many Dataobjects, I see lots of single selects which select one languageTranslation for the placeholder. The SQL I optimally would want to generate:
SELECT * FROM data join placeholder join languagetranslation
WHERE data.placeholder_id = placeholder.id
AND languagetranslation.placeholder_id = placeholder.id
AND languagetranslation.language_id = ?
so that I get every data with placeholder with translation in one single call. The languagetranslations have an composite primary key of language_id and placeholder_id.
I have no HBM file, everything is managed with annotations. Modelcode (only relevant sections are shown):
#Entity
public class Data {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
#OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, cascade = CascadeType.ALL, optional = false)
#Fetch(FetchMode.JOIN)
private Placeholder content;
}
public class Placeholder {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "primaryKey.placeholder", cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER, orphanRemoval = true)
#Fetch(FetchMode.JOIN)
private Set<LanguageTranslation> languageTranslations = new HashSet<>();
}
public class LanguageTranslation {
#EmbeddedId
private LanguageTranslationPK primaryKey = new LanguageTranslationPK();
#Type(type = "org.hibernate.type.StringClobType")
private String text;
}
#Embeddable
public class LanguageTranslationPK {
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
#Fetch(FetchMode.JOIN)
private TextPlaceholder textPlaceholder;
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
#Fetch(FetchMode.JOIN)
private Language language;
}
public class Language {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
}
I experimented with FetchType and FetchMode but couldn't generate the behavior I want, it always single selects for single languageTranslations.
I also tried multiple ways to query, criteria based, HQL, and raw SQL. My current raw SQL query is the following:
String sql_query = "select data.*, lt.* from Data as data join languagetranslation as lt on data.content_id = lt.textplaceholder_id";
Query q = getSession().createSQLQuery(sql_query).addEntity("data", Data.class).addJoin("data.content_id", "data.title").addJoin("lt", "data.content.languageTranslations").setResultTransformer(Criteria.DISTINCT_ROOT_ENTITY);
return q.list();
Am I doing something generally wrong here? How can I convince hibernate to get all entities in one single database call? Or is there some other methods to improve performance in my case (e.g. batch selecting)?

You may create proxy pojo which have your all entity variables with getter setter and constructor. then initialize this constructor in hibernate query so that you just get all needed data from database.
import com.proxy;
class userProxy{
private string name;
private string password;
private string address;
private int pincode;
private byte[] profilePic;
private int age;
public userProxy(string name,string password){
this.name = name;
this.password = password;
}
//Getter and setter of all variable...
}
Then use this constructor to Hibernate query like
select new com.proxy.userProxy(user.name,user.password) from usertable

Am I doing something generally wrong here?
No, you are not. That is how Hibernate works.
How can I convince hibernate to get all entities in one single database call
You have to use HQL or SQL query to do that. You do not need to have HBM file. It can be done through #NamedQueries / #NamedQuery annotation with list method.
There are many samples on Internet as example simple one:
http://www.mkyong.com/hibernate/hibernate-named-query-examples/

Initializing many-to-many association in Hibernate with join table

I have a Company entity that I fetch with a JPQL query with Hibernate. The entity has a many-to-many association with a Keyword entity. Since the join table has an additional column is_active, this table has been mapped to a CompanyKeyword entity. So the association is like this:
Company <-- CompanyKeyword --> Keyword
Now, the association from the Company entity is lazy, and it is not initialized by my JPQL query, as I want to avoid creating a cartesian product performance problem. That is why I want to initialize the association after running the JPQL query, e.g. like this:
#Service
class CompanyServiceImpl implements CompanyService {
#Autowired
private CompanyRepository companyRepository;
#Transactional
public Company findOne(int companyId) {
Company company = this.companyRepository.findOneWithSomeCustomQuery(companyId);
Hibernate.initialize(company.companyKeywords());
return company;
}
}
For a "normal" many-to-many association, this would work great, as all of the associated entities would be fetched in a single query. However, since I have an entity between Company and Keyword, Hibernate will only initialize the first part of the association, i.e. from Company to CompanyKeyword, and not from CompanyKeyword to Keyword. I hope that makes sense. I am looking for a way to initialize this association all the way without having to do something like this:
Company company = this.companyRepository.findOneWithSomeCustomQuery(companyId);
Hibernate.initialize(company.getCompanyKeywords());
for (CompanyKeyword ck : company.getCompanyKeywords()) {
Hibernate.initialize(ck.getKeyword());
}
The above code is neither clean, nor good in terms of performance. If possible, I would like to stick to my current approach of using a JPQL query to fetch my Company entity and then initializing certain associations afterwards; it would take quite a bit of refactoring to change this in my project. Should I just "manually" fetch the association with a second JPQL query, or is there a better way of doing it that I haven't thought of?
Below are my mappings. Thanks in advance!
Company
#Entity
#Table(name = "company")
public class Company implements Serializable {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column
private int id;
#Size(max = 20)
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "company")
private Set<CompanyKeyword> companyKeywords = new HashSet<>();
// Getters and setters
}
CompanyKeyword
#Entity
#Table(name = "company_service")
#IdClass(CompanyServicePK.class)
public class CompanyKeyword implements Serializable {
#Id
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, targetEntity = Company.class)
#JoinColumn(name = "company_id")
private Company company;
#Id
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, targetEntity = Keyword.class)
#JoinColumn(name = "keyword_id")
private Keyword keyword;
#Column(nullable = true)
private boolean isActive;
// Getters and setters
}
CompanyKeywordPK
public class CompanyServicePK implements Serializable {
private Company company;
private Service service;
public CompanyServicePK() { }
public CompanyServicePK(Company company, Service service) {
this.company = company;
this.service = service;
}
// Getters and setters
// hashCode()
// equals()
}
Keyword
#Entity
#Table(name = "keyword")
public class Keyword {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column
private int id;
// Fields and getters/setters
}

You'll indeed need to execute an additional JPQL query, fetching the company with its companyKeyWords and with the keyword of each CompanyKeyWord.
You could also doing it by simply looping and initializing every entity, and still avoid executing too many queries, by enabling batch fetching.