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Re: foreign key reference with toplink

From: Tom Ware <tom.ware_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:06:43 -0400

Hi Benjamin,

  In your example:

    @ManyToOne(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
    private BoEntity bo;

I would expect the foreign key to be defaulted to BO_ID.

What result are you seeing?

-Tom

Benjamin Graf wrote:

>Hi Tom,
>
>I think both are necessary. I'm trying to create a relationship with two
>entities and I thought that toplink will "translate" it to foreign key
>reference as mentioned in the spec.
>
>Code example:
>
>@Entity
>@NamedNativeQuery(name="activeBO", query="select * from boentity where
>status=0", resultClass=BoEntity.class)
>public class BoEntity implements java.io.Serializable {
>
> @Id
> @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
> private Long id;
>
> @OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy="bo")
> private Collection<HistoryLogEntity> history;
> ...
>}
>
>@Entity
>public class HistoryLogEntity implements java.io.Serializable {
>
> @Id
> @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
> @Column(name="HistoryLogID")
> private Long id;
>
> @ManyToOne(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
> private BoEntity bo;
> ...
>}
>
>Tom Ware wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Benjamin,
>>
>> It is not clear to me which of the following you are attempting.
>>
>>1. To create a OneToMany (and its corresponding ManyToOne) relationship
>>
>>
>between two entities.
>
>
>>2. To automatically create tables from entities and have the database
>>
>>
>foreign key constraint automatically generated.
>
>
>>Please provide a little more detail about what you are trying to do and
>>
>>
>the code that you are using to set up your ManyToOne.
>
>
>>-Tom
>>
>>Benjamin Graf wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>does anybody know how to create a foreign key reference with toplink? I
>>>tried several times with @OneToMany(mappedBy...) @ManyToOne, but I didn't
>>>succeed in creating a reference in the database table. Is that a
>>>
>>>
>limitation
>
>
>>>of toplink because there are no further information in the
>>>ejb3.0-persisitence-spec pdf-file.
>>>
>>>Regards, Benjamin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>