One-to-many relationship is updating entire child table with new parent id

[deepa karkala]

Hi, I am using spring LocalSessionFactoryBean and HibernateTransactionManager to carry out one-to-many operation in Oracle XE 10g database.

What is happening is, each time when I add a parent record with bunch of child records, getHibernateTemplate().save(parentRec) updating the current parend id for all other old records
in the child table.

This forced me to define many-to-one relationship in the child class config file which forces me to define a property for parent class in Child class which I do not want to do.


I did not want to define many-to-one relationship in the child class config file.


Parent record hbm.xml :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.rss.beans">
<class name="Application" table="application">
<meta attribute="class-description">This class contains application details.</meta>
<id name="appid" type="long" column="appid" unsaved-value="0">
<generator class="sequence">
<param name="sequence">App_Seq</param>
</generator>
</id>
<property name="appName" type="string" not-null="true" length="100" column="appname" />
<set name="components" cascade="all" lazy="false" inverse="true" >
<key column="appid" not-null="true" />
<one-to-many class="Component"/>
</set>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>


Child record hbm.xml : If I remove <many-to-one> in the below xml, the entire child table will be updated with current parent id. Very annoying.


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.rss.beans">
<class name="Component" table="component">

<id name="compid" column="compid" type="long" unsaved-value="0">
<generator class="sequence">
<param name="sequence">Comp_Seq</param>
</generator>
</id>
<property name="compName" type="string" length="20"/>
<many-to-one name="app" class="Application" >
<column name="appid" not-null="true" />
</many-to-one>

</class>
</hibernate-mapping>


Did anyone face this issue earlier ? Does it mean that in hibernte we can only define bi-directional One-to-Many relatinship ? I refered so many posts but no where mentioned about this weird issue.

Any suggestion is helpful.

thanks

[maganti suryanarayana]

change the query or change bidirectional mapping

[deepa karkala]

Can you be please more specific. I need to call "save" method to insert the rows right ? I can only call save. Internally in the log I can see hibernate calls save or update.

Change the bi-directional mapping means ? I was having uni directional mapping and as I mentioned it was updating all old records in the table with new parent id. That's why I changed it to bi-directional.

Appreciate if you provide me more information.

thanks.