Many To Many based on Collection : Many To Many Mapping « JPA « Java Tutorial






File: Project.java

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;

@Entity
public class Project {
    @Id
    protected int id;
    protected String name;
    @ManyToMany(mappedBy="projects")
    private Collection<Student> students;

    public Project() {
        students = new ArrayList<Student>();
    }
    public void setId(int i){
      id = i;
    }
    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    
    public Collection<Student> getStudents() {
        return students;
    }
    
    public String toString() {
        return "Project id: " + getId() + ", name: " + getName();
    }
}

File: Student.java

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;
import javax.persistence.Temporal;
import javax.persistence.TemporalType;

@Entity
public class Student {
    @Id
    private int id;
    private String name;

    
    @ManyToMany 
    private Collection<Project> projects;

    public Student() {
        projects = new ArrayList<Project>();
    }

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    
    public Collection<Project> getProjects() {
        return projects;
    }
    
    public String toString() {
        return "Student " + getId() + 
               ": name: " + getName() ;
    }
}

File: Helper.java

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class Helper {
  public static void checkData() throws Exception {
    Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");
    Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial", "sa", "");
    Statement st = conn.createStatement();

    ResultSet mrs = conn.getMetaData().getTables(null, null, null, new String[] { "TABLE" });
    while (mrs.next()) {
      String tableName = mrs.getString(3);
      System.out.println("\n\n\n\nTable Name: "+ tableName);

      ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("select * from " + tableName);
      ResultSetMetaData metadata = rs.getMetaData();
      while (rs.next()) {
        System.out.println(" Row:");
        for (int i = 0; i < metadata.getColumnCount(); i++) {
          System.out.println("    Column Name: "+ metadata.getColumnLabel(i + 1)+ ",  ");
          System.out.println("    Column Type: "+ metadata.getColumnTypeName(i + 1)+ ":  ");
          Object value = rs.getObject(i + 1);
          System.out.println("    Column Value: "+value+"\n");
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

File: Main.java

import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;
import javax.persistence.Query;

public class Main {
  static EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("JPAService");
  static EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();

  public static void main(String[] a) throws Exception {
    em.getTransaction().begin();
    
    
    Student student = new Student();
    student.setId(1);
    em.persist(student);
    
    Project dept = new Project();
    dept.setId(1);
    em.persist(dept);
    
    em.flush();
    


    Project project = em.find(Project.class, 1);
    student = em.find(Student.class, 1);
    project.getStudents().add(student);
    student.getProjects().add(project);
    
    
    Query query = em.createQuery("SELECT e FROM Student e");
    List<Student> list = (List<Student>) query.getResultList();
    System.out.println(list);
    
    query = em.createQuery("SELECT d FROM Project d");
    List<Project> dList = (List<Project>) query.getResultList();
    System.out.println(dList);
    
    em.getTransaction().commit();
    em.close();
    emf.close();
    
    Helper.checkData();
  }
}

File: persistence.xml

<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence" version="1.0">
  <persistence-unit name="JPAService" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
    <properties>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/>
      <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="sa"/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value=""/>
      <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial"/>
    </properties>
  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>
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22.10.2.Many To Many Mapping and Remove Operation
22.10.3.Many To Many Join Table Join Inverse Join Column
22.10.4.Many To Many based on Collection
22.10.5.Bidirectional Many To Many Mapping