All About Hibernates

Cascading Types

Persist: save or persist operations cascade to related entities
Merge: means that related entities are merged, when the owner entity is merged
Refresh: does the same thing for refresh() operation
Remove: removes all the entities association with this setting, when the owining entity is deleted.
Detach: detach all related entities, if a manual detach occurs.
All: shorthand of all related entities.

When you use a Map you always need to associate at least two entities. Let's say we have an Owner entity that relates to the Car entity (Car has a FK to Owner).

So, the Owner will have a Map of Car(s):

Map<X, Car> The @MapKey will give you the Car's property used to group a Car to its Owner. For instance, if we have a vin (Vehicle Identification Number) property in Car, we could use it as the carMap key:

@Entity
public class Owner {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="owner")
    @MapKey(name = "vin")
    private Map<String, Car> carMap;
}

@Entity
public class Car {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @ManyToOne
    private Owner owner;

    private String vin;

}

@MapKeyEnumerated will use an Enum from Car, like WheelDrive:

@Entity
public class Owner {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="owner")
    @MapKeyEnumerated(EnumType.STRING)
    private Map<WheelDrive, Car> carMap;
}

@Entity
public class Car {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @ManyToOne
    private Owner owner;

    @Column(name = "wheelDrive")
    @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
    private WheelDrive wheelDrive;

}

public enum WheelDrive {
    2WD, 
    4WD;             
}

This will group cars by their WheelDrive type.

@MapKeyTemporal will use a Date/Calendar field for grouping, like createdOn

@Entity
public class Owner {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="owner")
    @MapKeyTemporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Map<Date, Car> carMap;
}

@Entity
public class Car {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @ManyToOne
    private Owner owner;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    @Column(name="created_on")
    private Calendar createdOn;         
}

@MapKeyJoinColumn requires a third entity, like Manufacturer so that you have an association from Owner to Car and car has also an association to a Manufacturer, so that you can group all Owner's Cars by Manufacturer:

@Entity
public class Owner {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="owner")
    @MapKeyJoinColumn(name="manufacturer_id")
    private Map<Manufacturer, Car> carMap;
}


@Entity
public class Car {
    @Id
    private long id;

    @ManyToOne
    private Owner owner;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "manufacturer_id")
    private Manufacturer manufacturer;          
}

@Entity
public class Manufacturer {
    @Id
    private long id;

    private String name;
}

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