Subclass With Attribute Overrides : Attribute Overrides « JPA « Java Tutorial






File: Employee.java

import java.util.Date;

import javax.persistence.AttributeOverride;
import javax.persistence.AttributeOverrides;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Inheritance;
import javax.persistence.InheritanceType;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Temporal;
import javax.persistence.TemporalType;

@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS)
public abstract class Employee {
  @Id
  private int id;

  private String name;

  @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
  private Date startDate;

  public int getId() {
    return id;
  }

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

  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }

  public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
  }

  public Date getStartDate() {
    return startDate;
  }

  public void setStartDate(Date startDate) {
    this.startDate = startDate;
  }

  public String toString() {
    return "Employee id: " + getId() + " name: " + getName();
  }
}

@Entity
@Table(name="CONTRACT_EMP")
@AttributeOverrides({
    @AttributeOverride(name="name", column=@Column(name="FULLNAME")),
    @AttributeOverride(name="startDate", column=@Column(name="SDATE"))
})
class ContractEmployee extends Employee {
    @Column(name="D_RATE")
    private int dailyRate;
    private int term;

    
    public int getDailyRate() {
        return dailyRate;
    }
    
    public void setDailyRate(int dailyRate) {
        this.dailyRate = dailyRate;
    }
    
    public int getTerm() {
        return term;
    }
    
    public void setTerm(int term) {
        this.term = term;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return "ContractEmployee id: " + 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 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();

    ContractEmployee emp = new ContractEmployee();
    emp.setId(1);
    emp.setName("Tom");
    emp.setStartDate(new java.util.Date());
    emp.setDailyRate(123);
    em.persist(emp);
    



    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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22.31.Attribute Overrides
22.31.1.Using Attribute Overrides
22.31.2.Attribute Overrides For Secondary Table
22.31.3.Attribute Overrides For Embeddable ID
22.31.4.Subclass With Attribute Overrides