Question

Having a following SQL table:

create table users_posts_ratings_map (
  postId integer not null references posts (id),
  userId integer not null references users (id),
  ratingId integer not null references ratings (id),
  primary key (postId, userId)
);

and Following JPA-Annotated POJOs:

RatingId.java:

@Embeddable
public class RatingId implements Serializable {
    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "userId")
    private User user;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "postId")
    private Post post;

    // getters and setters
}

UserPostRating.java:

@Entity(name = "users_posts_ratings_map")
public class UserPostRating {
    @EmbeddedId
    private RatingId userPost;

    @OneToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "ratingId")
    private Rating rating;

    // getters and setters
}

Post.java

@Entity(name = "posts")
public class Post {
    @Id
    @Column(nullable = false)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Integer id;

    // irrelevant fields

    @ManyToMany
    @JoinTable(
            name = "users_posts_ratings_map",
            joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "ratingId") },
            inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "postId"), @JoinColumn(name = "userId") }
    )
    private Set<UserPostRating> ratings = new HashSet<>();

    // getters and setters
}

I am getting

org.hibernate.MappingException: Foreign key (FKB278E73083D94769:users_posts_ratings_map [postId,userId])) must have same number of columns as the referenced primary key (users_posts_ratings_map [ratingId,postId,userId])

on servlet container initialization stage.

What does it mean (What are Foreign Keys in this mappings? What are Primary Keys? Which annotations are marking what?) and how it could be fixed?

Answer 1

This mapping doesn’t make much sense. You have an entity UserPostRating, mapped to the users_posts_ratings_map, and having a ManyToOne association with the entity Post.

And in Post, you have a set of UserPostRating, but you map it as a second association, and make it a ManyToMany. It isn’t a ManyToMany. It’s a OneToMany, since the other side is a ManyToOne. And since the bidirectional association is already mapped in UserPostRating, you can’t map it a second time in Post. So the code should be:

@OneToMany(mappedBy="userPost.post")
private Set<UserPostRating> ratings = new HashSet<>();