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How configure for a (Optional) OneToOne Composite Primary Key?

 
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I am using Hibernate and have two tables, STUDENTS and DORM_ROOMS, that are related with a composite key:

The relationship is one to one because a student can be associated with exactly one dorm room and and a dorm room is associated with one student (wow - a private room!). However, not all students have a dorm room.

My initial code (stripped down) looks like:

Assume that the database schema is already defined and created. In particular, CAMPUS+STUDENT_ID is a PK for STUDENTS and CAMPUS+STUDENT_ID is a FK for DORM_ROOMS that serves as the PK in that table. At this point I can successfully insert a row into STUDENTS and a row into DORM_ROOMS. I can also retrieve any student from STUDENTS even if the student does not have a dorm room. However, I have not yet "informed" Hibernate about the relationship between the two tables. That is where I am confused.

I tried to "relate" the two tables by using a "JOIN" annotation but I discovered that this causes any attempt to fetch a student that has no dorm room to return an empty result set. I suppose that makes since if "JOIN" states that the tables are to always be viewed as joined then joining a student having no dorm room with no matching rows in the DORM_ROOMS table would result in an empty result set.

Since using a "JOIN" annotation doesn't work, how do I modify my code to describe the relationship between the two tables but still allow me to fetch students that have no matching dorm rooms?

Thank you.
 
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Found the problem! I discovered that in a @OneToOne relationship with a composite key, using a separate FK class to manage the composite key in both entities causes the error. The problem is shown in my original posting where I define and use StudentsPK and DormRoomsPK! Once I changed to use a single "PK" class instead of these two my problem was eliminated. (This doesn't appear to be a well documented requirement!)
 
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