Question

I’ve just started using Play Framework. After I finished tutorials (covering basic functions) I try setup connection between database and play. One of my relations has schema:

CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `shop`.`CatPath` (
  `parentC` INT NOT NULL ,
  `childC` INT NOT NULL ,
  `depth` INT NOT NULL ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`parentC`, `childC`) 
  )

so I built model’s class:

@Entity
public class CatPath extends Model {

@EmbeddedId 
public CatPathKey key;
public Long depth;

public class CatPathKey {

        public Long parentC;
        public Long childC;
}   

public static Finder<CatPathKey, CatPath> find = new Finder<CatPathKey, CatPath>(CatPathKey.class, CatPath.class);

after compilation I get exception:

PersistenceException: Could not find BeanDescriptor for class models.CatPath$KatPathKey. Perhaps the EmbeddedId class is not registered?

I don’t know where is a problem, when I followed tutorials everything worked. Only difference between my code and tutorial’s is key: I have compound key, in tutorials only one column makes key. Why in tutorials ‘registering class’ wasn’t necessary? I guess, it was registered automatically but why now, with compound key, it isn’t?

I tried to find some information, I found: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/UserGuide/JPA/Basic_JPA_Development/Entities/Ids/EmbeddedId
this xml code is ‘class registering’? In Play framework tutorials and detailed topics xml isn’t mentioned, I didn’t do anything with my model’s classes and everything worked.

Answer 1

You have to add the @Embeddable annotation under your CatPathKey class:

@Embeddable
public class CatPathKey {

        public Long parentC;
        public Long childC;
}