Question

I have a self referential table that I am mapping with kodo jdo 4 (supplied from weblogic server 10.3.4.) The code I have will get through the enhancer, but when I try to use it I get the error:

<openjpa-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT-r422266:965591 fatal user error> kodo.jdo.FatalUserException: Missing table name for field "com.[...].jdo.Branch.branches". This field cannot reside in the owning class table.
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.FieldMapping.mapJoin(FieldMapping.java:529)

the table is:

CREATE TABLE branch 
(
id              VARCHAR2(10)   NOT NULL,
parentId        VARCHAR2(10)  NOT NULL,
[other fields deleted ...]
CONSTRAINT branch_pk PRIMARY KEY(id),
CONSTRAINT branch_fk_parent FOREIGN KEY(parentId) REFERENCES branch(id)
);

the class is :

public class Branch implements MenuPart, Serializable
{
private Branch parent;
    private Set<Branch> branches = new HashSet<Branch> ();
    private String id;
    private Set<Leaf> leafs = new HashSet<Leaf> ();
    private long ordering;
    private String title;
    //methods removed.
}

the package.jdo file is:

    <class name="Branch" objectid-class="BranchId" table="SCHEMA.BRANCH">
        <version strategy="none"/>
        <field name="parent" table="SCHEMA.BRANCH">
                <column name="SCHEMA.BRANCH.PARENTID" target="ID" />
        </field>
        <field name="branches" table="SCHEMA.BRANCH" >
            <collection element-type="Branch"/>
            <join>  
                <column name="SCHEMA.BRANCH.PARENTID" target="ID" />
            </join>
        </field>
        <field name="id" column="ID" primary-key="true"/>
        <field name="leafs" table="SCHEMA.LEAF">
            <collection element-type="Leaf"/>
              <join>  
                <column name="ID" target="BRANCHID" />
      </join>
        </field>
        <field name="ordering" column="ORDERING"/>
        <field name="title" column="TITLE"/>
    </class>

I have gotten the functionality to work in kodo jdo 3.4 but now the syntax is different and the friendly manual isn’t that helpful that I can find.

Answer 1

here is what finally worked

    <class name="Branch" objectid-class="BranchId" table="EBIGP.BRANCH">
        <version strategy="none"/>
        <field name="parent">
            <column name="EBIGP.BRANCH.PARENTID" target="ID" />
        </field>
        <field name="branches" mapped-by="parent" />
        <field name="id" column="ID" primary-key="true"/>
        <field name="leafs" default-fetch-group="true">
            <collection element-type="Leaf"/>
            <element column="BRANCHID"/>
        </field>
        <field name="ordering" column="ORDERING"/>
        <field name="title" column="TITLE"/>
    </class>

Apparently all it needed was a mapped-by=”parent” attribute.