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hibernate: many-to-one mapping via xml


I'm facing some difficulties, trying to set up many-to-one relationship for two tables: USERS and SUBSCRIBERS

(the main idea here is that users can save references on other users)

USERS table contain theese fields: |USER_ID|USER_PASSWORD| While SUBSCRIBERS conains: |SUBSCRIBER_ID|USER_ID|, where: 1. Both fields are included in Primary Key 2. Both fields are foreign keys referencing to USER_ID from USERS. There are no exception while saving User to a database. But when I call code: (after creating 2 users inside DB - with first_u USER_ID, and second_u USER_ID)

hibernate_session.beginTransaction();
subscr = new Subscription("first_u", "second_u");
hibernate_session.save(subscr);
hibernate_session.getTransaction().commit();

I get this exception:

org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: IllegalArgumentException occurred calling getter of player.database.hibernate.entities.User.userID
    org.hibernate.property.access.spi.GetterMethodImpl.get(GetterMethodImpl.java:64)
    org.hibernate.tuple.entity.AbstractEntityTuplizer.getIdentifier(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:223)
    org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.getIdentifier(AbstractEntityPersister.java:4601)
    org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.isTransient(AbstractEntityPersister.java:4313)
    org.hibernate.engine.internal.ForeignKeys.isTransient(ForeignKeys.java:226)
    org.hibernate.engine.internal.ForeignKeys.getEntityIdentifierIfNotUnsaved(ForeignKeys.java:276)
    org.hibernate.type.EntityType.getIdentifier(EntityType.java:455)
    org.hibernate.type.ManyToOneType.nullSafeSet(ManyToOneType.java:153)
    org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.nullSafeSet(ComponentType.java:343)
    org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.dehydrateId(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2636)
    org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.dehydrate(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2604)
    org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2883)
    org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:3386)
    org.hibernate.action.internal.EntityInsertAction.execute(EntityInsertAction.java:89)
    org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:560)
    org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:434)
    org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.performExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:337)
    org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:39)
    org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1282)
    org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:465)
    org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flushBeforeTransactionCompletion(SessionImpl.java:2963)
    org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.beforeTransactionCompletion(SessionImpl.java:2339)
    org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcCoordinatorImpl.beforeTransactionCompletion(JdbcCoordinatorImpl.java:485)
    org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jdbc.internal.JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl.beforeCompletionCallback(JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl.java:147)
    org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jdbc.internal.JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl.access$100(JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl.java:38)
    org.hibernate.resource.transaction.backend.jdbc.internal.JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl$TransactionDriverControlImpl.commit(JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl.java:231)
    org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:65)
    player.debugg.FriendRegistration.doGet(FriendRegistration.java:39)
    player.debugg.FriendRegistration.doPost(FriendRegistration.java:20)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:648)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
    org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class

Here are code snipets for entity classes and hbm.xml:

package player.database.hibernate.entities; 
public class User
{

    private String userID;
    private String userPassword;


    public User()
    {

    }

    public User(String login, String password)
    {
        this.setUserID(login);
        this.setUserPassword(password);
    }

    public void setUserID(String id)
    {
        if((id!=null)&&(!id.equals("")))
            this.userID = id;
        else throw new IllegalArgumentException("User ID setter exception: empty or null");
    }

    public void setUserPassword(String password)
    {
        if((password!=null)&&(!password.equals("")))
            this.userPassword = password;
        else throw new IllegalArgumentException("User password setter exception: empty or null");
    }

    public String getUserID()
    {
        return this.userID;
    }

    public String getUserPassword()
    {
        return this.userPassword;
    }
}

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
    <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
            "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
            "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
    <hibernate-mapping package="player.database.hibernate.entities">
      <class name="User" table="USERS">
        <id name="userID" column="USER_ID">
          <generator class="assigned"></generator>
        </id>
        <property name="userPassword" column="USER_PASS"/>
      </class>

package player.database.hibernate.entities;

import java.io.Serializable;

public class Subscription implements Serializable
{
    private String subscriberID;
    private String userID;

    public Subscription()
    {
    }

    public Subscription(String subscriberID, String userID)
    {
        this.setSubscriberID(subscriberID);
        this.setUserID(userID);
    }

    public void setSubscriberID(String subscriberID) {
        if((subscriberID!=null)&&(!subscriberID.equals("")))
            this.subscriberID = subscriberID;
        else throw new IllegalArgumentException("Subscription subscriberID setter error: null or empty string");
    }

    public void setUserID(String userID) {
        if((userID!=null)&&(!userID.equals("")))
            this.userID = userID;
        else throw new IllegalArgumentException("Subscription subscriberID setter error: null or empty string");
    }

    public String getSubscriberID() {
        return subscriberID;
    }

    public String getUserID() {
        return userID;
    }


    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if(obj instanceof Subscription){
            Subscription subscription = (Subscription) obj;

            if(!subscription.getSubscriberID().equals(subscriberID)){
                return false;
            }

            if(!subscription.getUserID().equals(userID)){
                return false;
            }

            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return subscriberID.hashCode() + userID.hashCode();
    }

}

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
        "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
        "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="player.database.hibernate.entities">
  <class name="Subscription" table="SUBSCRIBERS">

      <composite-id>
          <key-many-to-one name="subscriberID" column="SUBSCRIBER_ID" class="User"/>
          <key-many-to-one name="userID" column="USER_ID" class="User"/>
      </composite-id>
  </class>
  </hibernate-mapping>

P.S. I am using a way described here http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0350__Hibernate/ComposedID.htm to create a composite key. I assume it works fine, because it outputs theese in console:

Hibernate: create table SUBSCRIBERS (SUBSCRIBER_ID varchar(255) not null, USER_ID varchar(255) not null, primary key (SUBSCRIBER_ID, USER_ID))
Hibernate: create table USERS (USER_ID varchar(255) not null, USER_PASS varchar(255), primary key (USER_ID))
Hibernate: alter table SUBSCRIBERS add constraint FKnh93vk6v0ivt3a42hbaa7ffk5 foreign key (SUBSCRIBER_ID) references USERS (USER_ID)
Hibernate: alter table SUBSCRIBERS add constraint FKodh9g832cfmbqtsgtixky9j8j foreign key (USER_ID) references USERS (USER_ID)

I would really appreciate any help on this question.


Solution

  • You're saying that the Subscription class has a many-to-one association with the User class. I think there is no association defined as such. If there was an association, the Subscription class would have

    private User user;
    
    public User getUser() {
        return this.user;
    }
    
    public void setUser(User user) {
        this.user= user;
    }
    

    Also I don`t see any mapping in subscription table