by Heath Hirthe
Published 3 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Bidirectional association allows us to fetch details of dependent object from both side. In such case, we have the reference of two classes in each other. Let's take an example of Employee and Address, if Employee class has-a reference of Address and Address has a reference of Employee.
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How does hibernate generate a name?
If you don’t define the name yourself, Hibernate generates a name by combining the name of the association mapping attribute and the name of the primary key attribute of the associated entity. In this example, Hibernate would use book_id as the default column name.
Can a book entity be bidirectional?
You also need to map the one-to-many association on the Book entity to make it bidirectional. As you can see in the following code snippet, this is done in a similar way as the many-to-one association.
Can you use bidirectional associations in JPQL?
That’s all you need to do to define a bidirectional many-to-one association. You can now navigate it in both directions in your JPQL or Criteria API queries or on your domain objects. Bidirectional associations are easy to use in queries, but they also require an additional step when you persist a new entity.
What is one-to-one mapping?
One to one represents that a single entity is associated with a single instance of the other entity. An instance of a source entity can be almost mapped to one instance of the target entity. We have a lot of examples around us that demonstrate this one-to-one mapping.
One-to-one unidirectional
In this type of mapping one entity has a property or a column that references to a property or a column in the target entity. Let us see this with the help of an example-
One-to-one bidirectional
Until now the relationship was unidirectional i.e. we could access StudentGfgDetail from the Student entity but not vice-versa, but why would we want to have a bidirectional relationship, and what is the problem with a unidirectional relationship?
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