Question

I would like to ensure that an entity is contained in at most one single entity.
Is it possible to check this from the mapping files? In SQL land, I want to ensure
that if a table has a foreign key, that there are no repeated entries in the foreign key column.

Thanks!

Jorge

Answer 1

Just make the FK unique:

<many-to-one unique="true" />

Or, from the collection side:

<key>
  <column unique="true"/>
</key>

(I omitted all attributes non related to the problem)