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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:59:45+00:00

Taken from here: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/persistent-classes.html#persistent-classes-equalshashcode I tend to use List since Criteria returns List ,

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Taken from here: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/persistent-classes.html#persistent-classes-equalshashcode

I tend to use List since Criteria returns List, so it makes my code cleaner since I don’t have to do conversion.

I do something like so..

@OneToMany(cascade= {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.REMOVE}, mappedBy="parent")
@Column(name="PARENT_ID")
public List<Menu> getChildMenus() {
    return childMenus;
}

If I had use Set there, somewhere in my DAO I will have to convert results returned by Criteria to Set first.

I wonder what the repercussion could be by using List they way I am doing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Set is used as the child table has a primary key such that a child can only be once in a parent. If you use a list there can be duplicate children in the list and this cannot be saved to the database.

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