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Model Relationship Table As An Entity: @embeddable Public Static Class Bookpublisherid Implements Serializable (

The document discusses how to model a relationship table as an entity and persist additional attributes for many-to-many relationships in JPA. It recommends: 1) modeling the relationship table as an entity, 2) using an embeddable class as the primary key, 3) defining the entity mapping with the embeddable primary key and relationships, and 4) initializing the primary key and relationships in the entity constructor.

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Model Relationship Table As An Entity: @embeddable Public Static Class Bookpublisherid Implements Serializable (

The document discusses how to model a relationship table as an entity and persist additional attributes for many-to-many relationships in JPA. It recommends: 1) modeling the relationship table as an entity, 2) using an embeddable class as the primary key, 3) defining the entity mapping with the embeddable primary key and relationships, and 4) initializing the primary key and relationships in the entity constructor.

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Persist additional attributes for a relationship

1. Model relationship table as an entity

2. Use a @Embeddable class as primary key


Create a class for the primary key and annotate it with @Embeddable
so that you can use it as a @EmbeddedId. Define a mapping for the
two foreign key columns.
Make sure to implement the equals and hashCode methods.

@Embeddable
public static class BookPublisherId implements Serializable {

@Column(name = "fk_book")
protected Long bookId;

@Column(name = "fk_publisher")
protected Long publisherId;

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3. Define the relationship entity mapping
Use the embeddable class as the primary key.
Map the relationships to the related entities and set insertable and
updatable to false.

@Entity
public class BookPublisher {

@EmbeddedId
private BookPublisherId id;

@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "fk_book",
insertable = false, updatable = false)
private Book book;

@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "fk_publisher",
insertable = false, updatable = false)
private Publisher publisher;

@Column
@Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private Format format;

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4. Initialize primary key and relationships in
constructor
Implement a constructor that initializes all attributes and the
relationships.

@Entity
public class BookPublisher {

public BookPublisher(Book b, Publisher p, Format f) {


// create primary key
this.id = new BookPublisherId(b.getId(), p.getId());

// initialize attributes
this.book = b;
this.publisher = p;
this.format = f;

// update relationships to assure referential integrity


p.getBooks().add(this);
b.getPublishers().add(this);
}

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