Question

I have the following POJO:

public class SampleBean1 {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(generator = "system-uuid")
    @GenericGenerator(name = "system-uuid", strategy = "uuid")
    protected String id;

    @OneToOne(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name="OneToOneID")
    protected SampleBean1 oneToOne;

    @OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name="OneToManyID")
    protected List<SampleBean1> oneToMany;

    @ManyToOne(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name="ManyToOneID")
    protected SampleBean1 manyToOne; 

    @ManyToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
    @JoinTable(name="SampleBeanManyToMany",
            joinColumns={@JoinColumn(name="LeftID")},
            inverseJoinColumns={@JoinColumn(name="RightID")})
    @IndexColumn(name="ManyToManyIndex")
    protected List<SampleBean1> manyToMany;

    ...
}

I’m making a library to detect OneToOne or ManyToOne (and doing appropriate operations). It always comes back as ManyToOne.

//Get the class' metadata
ClassMetadata cmd=sf.getClassMetadata(o.getClass());


for(String propertyName:cmd.getPropertyNames()){
    org.hibernate.type.Type propertyType=cmd.getPropertyType(propertyName);

//Handle ___ToOne
if (propertyType.isEntityType()){
    EntityType et=(EntityType)propertyType;
    System.out.printf("%s=%s\n",propertyName,et.isOneToOne()?"true":"false");
}

}


Here's what I get back:
manyToOne=false
oneToOne=false

In the debugger the Type of the "oneToOne" is ManyToOneType!!  Did I do something wrong or is this a Hibernate defect?
EDIT:  Here's how the OneToOne's can work.  Let's create three SampleBeans (SB1, SB2, SB3) as described in a comment below.  First, the data in POJO form:
SB1.oneToOne=SB2
SB2.oneToOne=SB3
SB3.oneToOne=null

Again the data in database form:
ID|OneToOneID
1|2
2|3
3|null

As long as OneToOneID has a unique constraint, would this type of relation be OneToOne?  Is there another way to model OneToOne?  Note that the POJO above is intended unidirectional OneToOne.  Could that be the issue?
												

Answer 1

That’s much clearer now, thank you.

Is it really SampleBean1 in both cases (e.g. entity itself and the OneToOne mapped property) or is it a typo? If they are the same, I’m pretty sure it’s illegal (how do you imagine that mapping would work)? I’m a bit surprised it’s quietly downgraded to “many-to-one” instead of throwing an error, but perhaps that’s what Hibernate Annotations mapper does.