Question

I’m trying to map an @Embeddable object in a subclass whose parent class already has a field of that @Embeddable type.

The hibernate Embeddable Objects documentation claims I can use the @AttributeOverrides to override the column names of an @Embeddable object:

e.g.

@Entity
public class Person implements Serializable {

    // Persistent component using defaults
    Address homeAddress;

    @Embedded
    @AttributeOverrides( {
            @AttributeOverride(name="iso2", column = @Column(name="bornIso2") ),
            @AttributeOverride(name="name", column = @Column(name="bornCountryName") )
    } )
    Country bornIn;
    ...
}

Here’s the case I have:

 @Embeddable
    public class ContentID implements Serializable {
        @Column(name="contentID")
        private String contentPath;
    }

   @MappedSuperclass
   public abstract class BaseDomainObject implements Serializable  {

       @Embedded
       private ContentID contentID;
    }

public class Achievement extends BaseDomainObject {

    @Embedded
    @AttributeOverrides( {
        @AttributeOverride(name="contentID", column = @Column(name="awardedItem") ),
    } )
    private ContentID awardedItem;
}   

The error I get is:

org.hibernate.MappingException:
Repeated column in mapping for entity:
Achievement column: contentID (should
be mapped with insert=”false”
update=”false”) at
org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.checkColumnDuplication(PersistentClass.java:652)
at
org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.checkPropertyColumnDuplication(PersistentClass.java:674)
at
org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.checkPropertyColumnDuplication(PersistentClass.java:670)
at
org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.checkColumnDuplication(PersistentClass.java:696)
at
org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.validate(PersistentClass.java:450)
at
org.hibernate.mapping.SingleTableSubclass.validate(SingleTableSubclass.java:43)
at
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validate(Configuration.java:1108)
at
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1293)
at
org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:867)

UPDATE:

I looked in for Hibernate issues relating to this and the GRAILS project claimed they fixed this issue but their annotation solution doesn’t seem to be valid javax.persistence annotations (maybe it’s a new version).

JPA @Embeddable/@Embedded throws org.hibernate.MappingException: Repeated column in mapping for entity

Answer 1

The problem seems to be this:

 public class ContentID implements Serializable {
    @Column(name="contentID")
    private String contentPath;
}

You are making the contentPath column name to be “contentId” and that is clashing with your AttributeOverride annotation later on.

Try this:

public class ContentID implements Serializable {
    @Column(name="contentPath")
    private String contentPath;
}

UPDATE
I am also wondering about this:

@Embedded
@AttributeOverrides( {
    @AttributeOverride(name="contentID", column = @Column(name="awardedItem") ),
} )
private ContentID awardedItem;

You seem to be changing the name of the contentId column here to awardedItem. Is that really necessary?