How to use a child association property as a Map key in JPA parent entity

Question

I'm having two entities Car and CarDescription where CarDescription is depending on another foreign key from the table Language.

What I' trying to accomplish is to have a HashMap in Car such that whenever I'm having a Car entity-object I am able to access all descriptions from the language id.

Entity Car.java

@Entity
@Table(name = "Car")
public class Car extends AbstractTimestampEntity implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -5041816842632017838L;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name = "ID", unique = true, nullable = false)
    private Long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="car")
    @MapKeyColumn(name = "language_ID")
    // @MapKey(name = "language") // does not work either 
    private Map<Long, CarDescription> carDescription = new HashMap<>(0);
}

Entity CarDescription.java

@Entity
@Table( name="car_description",
        uniqueConstraints = {
            @UniqueConstraint(columnNames={"language_id", "name"}) 
        }
)
public class CarDescription extends AbstractTimestampEntity implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 2840651722666001938L;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name = "ID", unique = true, nullable = false)
    private Long id;

    @NotNull
    @ManyToOne
    private Car car;

    @NotNull
    @OneToOne
    private Language language;

    // ..
}

Entity Language.java

@Entity
public class Language implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 3968717758435500381L;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name="ID")
    private Long id;

    // ..
}

The problem I am having is that the mapping gives me a map from each CarDescription.id to CarDescription.

How can I accomplish a correct mapping?

Answer 1

In CarDescription you need to add the languageId property:

@Column(name = "language_id", insertable = false, updatable = false)
private Long languageId;

@NotNull
@OneToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "language_id")
private Language language;

public void setLanguage(Language language) {
    this.languageId = language.getId();
    this.language = language;
} 

Then you can use it in the Car entity like this:

@OneToMany(mappedBy="car")
@MapKey(name = "languageId")
private Map<Long, CarDescription> carDescription = new HashMap<>(0);