Question

Need some help on understanding how to do this; I’m going to be running recursive ‘find’ on a file system and I want to keep the information in a single DB table – with a self-referencing hierarchial structure:

This is my DB Table structure I want to populate.

DirObject Table:

id       int NOT NULL,
name     varchar(255) NOT NULL,
parentid int NOT NULL);

Here is the proposed Java Class I want to map (Fields only shown):

public DirObject {
    int id;
    String name;
    DirObject parent;
...

For the ‘root’ directory was going to use parentid=0; real ids will start at 1, and ideally I want hibernate to autogenerate the ids.

Can somebody provide a suggested mapping file for this please; as a secondary question I thought about doing the Java Class like this instead:

public DirObject {
    int id;
    String name;
    List<DirObject> subdirs;

Could I use the same data model for either of these two methods ? (With a different mapping file of course).

— UPDATE: so I tried the mapping file suggested below (thanks!), repeated here for reference:

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="my.proj.DirObject" table="category">
        ...   

        <set name="subDirs" lazy="true" inverse="true">
            <key column="parentId"/>
            <one-to-many class="my.proj.DirObject"/>
        </set>

        <many-to-one name="parent"
                     class="my.proj.DirObject"
                     column="parentId" cascade="all" />
    </class>

…and altered my Java class to have BOTH ‘parentid’ and ‘getSubDirs’ [returning a ‘HashSet’].

This appears to work – thanks, but this is the test code I used to drive this – I think I’m not doing something right here, because I thought Hibernate would take care of saving the subordinate objects in the Set without me having to do this explicitly ?

DirObject dirobject=new DirObject();
   dirobject.setName("/files");
   dirobject.setParent(dirobject);

   DirObject d1, d2;
   d1=new DirObject(); d1.setName("subdir1"); d1.setParent(dirobject);
   d2=new DirObject(); d2.setName("subdir2"); d2.setParent(dirobject);
   HashSet<DirObject> subdirs=new HashSet<DirObject>();
   subdirs.add(d1);
   subdirs.add(d2);
   dirobject.setSubdirs(subdirs);


   session.save(dirobject);
   session.save(d1);
   session.save(d2);

Answer 1

you can get the children from parent

<set name="subdirs" lazy="false" cascade="all-delete-orphan" inverse="true">
            <key column="parentid " />
            <one-to-many class="DirObject" />
 </set>

parent from child

<many-to-one name="parent" class="DirObject">
            <column name="parentid" />
 </many-to-one>