Question

Sure this is a simple answer, but I cannot find the right source to give the details.
I have a ManyToOne relationship. Because of a synchronization system, when a child is removed a field named ‘removed’ is set to ‘true’, and will automatically be deleted only a month later.

However, in the meanwhile, I would like it not to appear in the List in the parent. Is there an easy way to specify a select statement in the definition of the field or so?

@OneToMany(mappedBy = "parent")
@OrderBy("level")
public List<MenuItem> children;

Answer 1

As you are using hibernate you can use the @where annotation. I never used it myself but it seems quite straight forward. Have a look here: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/annotations/reference/en/html_single/#entity-hibspec-collection