Thread: One-to-one: property-ref: foreign key: composite-id

oneview member: CatchSandeepVaid CatchSandeepVaid
07/06/2009

Presently there is no way in hibernate using which we can specify one-to-one relationship with property-ref to part of composite-id
of another entity. The following scenario will clarify the above statement.

There is a one-to-one relationship between Product and ProductBasic.
Product -----> productId (PK)
ProductBasic ----> pId, useCode, StartTime (as composite key) and pId is also foreign key referencing Product.

This is a legacy database. We get one-to-one relationship by using the condition:
 Product.productId=ProductBasic.pId and useCode='008' and startTime<currentTime<endTime.
 
 In Product.hbm.xml:
 <one-to-one name="productBasic" cascade="save-update" property-ref="activeProduct" constrained="true">
     <formula>PRODUCTID</formula>
 </one-to-one>
 
 In ProductBasic.hbm.xml
  <composite-id name="compProductBasic">
    <key-property name="pId" column="PID" ></key-property>
    <key-property name="useCode" column="USECODE" "></key-property>
    <key-property name="startTime" column="STARTTIME" ></key-property>
  </composite-id>
  
  <properties name="activeProduct">
    <property name="compProductBasic.pId" class="Product"  insert="false" update="false" lazy="proxy" />
  </properties>
 
 
 If my relationship is Product.productId = ProductBasic.pId, there is no way in hibernate to specify this relationship.
 Moreover we cannot remap(refer to) the property of composite-id (compProductBasic.pId in current example)..
 
 Hence i request for enhancement in hibernate to incorporate this.

I have also logged this in Hibernate JIRA. ID is HHH-4014

 
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