I have a parent-child relationship:
@Entity @Table(name = "user") public final class User { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY) private Integer userID; @Column(name = "username") private String userName; @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "admin") private Set<News> news; } @Entity @Table(name = "news") public final class News { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY) private int newsID; @ManyToOne(cascade = CascadeType.PERSIST) @JoinColumn(name = "userID") private User admin; @Column(name = "newsText") private String newsText; @Column(name = "dateOfPost") private Date dateOfPost; }
Here User is the parent, and News is the child. The reason I have cascading operations is because I want all News objects to be deleted / saved when I delete / save the corresponding User . Also, when I save the News object, I want the corresponding User saved (but not deleted if News deleted). I have a service method that saves a News object as follows:
User u = new User("administrator"); News n = new News("News text"); n.setUser(u); u.addNews(n); session.save(n);
For the above code, I get the following exception:
org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: could not insert: [com.maximus.db.model.News] at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:96) at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:66) at org.hibernate.id.insert.AbstractReturningDelegate.performInsert(AbstractReturningDelegate.java:64) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2345) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2852) at org.hibernate.action.EntityIdentityInsertAction.execute(EntityIdentityInsertAction.java:71) at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:273) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:320) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:203) at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:129) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:210) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedOrRequestedId(DefaultSaveEventListener.java:56) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:195) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveEventListener.java:50) at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSave(SessionImpl.java:713) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.save(SessionImpl.java:701) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.save(SessionImpl.java:697) at com.maximus.db.dao.NewsDAOImpl.addNews(NewsDAOImpl.java:17) at com.maximus.db.service.NewsServiceImpl.addNews(NewsServiceImpl.java:31) at com.maximus.test.db.service.NewsServiceTest.testAddNewsWithNewUser(NewsServiceTest.java:36) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestMethodRunner.executeMethodBody(TestMethodRunner.java:99) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestMethodRunner.runUnprotected(TestMethodRunner.java:81) at org.junit.internal.runners.BeforeAndAfterRunner.runProtected(BeforeAndAfterRunner.java:34) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestMethodRunner.runMethod(TestMethodRunner.java:75) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestMethodRunner.run(TestMethodRunner.java:45) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestClassMethodsRunner.invokeTestMethod(TestClassMethodsRunner.java:66) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestClassMethodsRunner.run(TestClassMethodsRunner.java:35) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestClassRunner$1.runUnprotected(TestClassRunner.java:42) at org.junit.internal.runners.BeforeAndAfterRunner.runProtected(BeforeAndAfterRunner.java:34) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestClassRunner.run(TestClassRunner.java:52) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197) Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Column 'userId' cannot be null at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:409) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:384) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1041) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3566) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3498) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1959) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2113) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2568) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2113) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:2409) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:2327) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:2312) at org.hibernate.id.IdentityGenerator$GetGeneratedKeysDelegate.executeAndExtract(IdentityGenerator.java:94) at org.hibernate.id.insert.AbstractReturningDelegate.performInsert(AbstractReturningDelegate.java:57) ... 38 more
What could be the problem?
Am I using a service method that is trying to save a child? Should I always keep the parent instead?
Thanks.
UPDATE: If instead of this I instead save the user, I save the user as session.save(u) , everything is in order. Thus, the question remains: is it right to save the child instead of the parent? If not, how can I achieve it?
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