Question

I am experiencing a problem where as Hibernate (4.1.8.FINAL) returns a list with NULL values (unidirectional OneToMany mapping).

What I’m getting:
I am getting a List with size of 21 where as EntryAddress is on 10th index, and 2nd Entry Address is on 20th index.

Entry [addresses=[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, EntryAddress [id=5, entryId=3, precedence=10, line=Line 3.1], null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, EntryAddress [id=6, entryId=3, precedence=20, line=Line 3.2]]]

What I expect – I expect a List with only two EntryAddress objects:

Entry [addresses=[EntryAddress [id=5, entryId=3, precedence=10, line=Line 3.1], EntryAddress [id=6, entryId=3, precedence=20, line=Line 3.2]]]

Here’s the minimal source code:

@Entity
@Table(name = "entry")
public class Entry {
    ...
    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, orphanRemoval = true)
    @JoinColumn(name = "entry_id")
    @OrderColumn(name = "precedence")
    private List<EntryAddress> addresses;
    ...
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "entry_address")
public class EntryAddress {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    @Column(name = "id")
    private Integer id;

    @Column(name = "entry_id")
    private Integer entryId;

    @Column(name = "precedence")
    private Integer precedence;
...
}

Here’s the mysql structure (engine InnoDB):

CREATE TABLE  entry  (
   id  int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
   name  varchar(500) NOT NULL,
   active  int(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
   modifiedTS  timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
   createdTS  timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  PRIMARY KEY ( id )
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

-- --------------------------------------------------------

CREATE TABLE  entry_address  (
   id  int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
   entry_id  int(10) unsigned NULL,
   precedence  int(2) NULL DEFAULT '0',
   line  varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY ( id ),
  UNIQUE KEY  entry_address_uq  ( entry_id , precedence )
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

When I try to replace “List” with “Set” then collection doesn’t have NULL values, but the sequence/precedence is not working.

One interesting point I found is, if I set precedence of 1st EntryAddress to 1, and set precedence of 2nd EntryAddress to 2 then I am getting a List with a size of 2. So it seems the precedence plays a role during returning of List although the precedence should only be used for sorting.

Can you please tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

I found the solution, I used it and this solved the issue

@OneToMany(orphanRemoval = true)
@LazyCollection(LazyCollectionOption.FALSE)
@JoinColumn(name = "entry_id")
@OrderBy("precedence")
private List<EntryAddress> addresses;

@OneToMany(orphanRemoval = true)
@LazyCollection(LazyCollectionOption.FALSE)
@JoinColumn(name = "entry_id")
@OrderBy("precedence")
private List<EntryContact> contacts;