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When we need Custom generator class in hibernate: If we want to generate a primary key with our format, then we can go this custom generator, i.e. If we’re going to generate id as numeric, then we can go with any generator except assigned. Learn about Identity, Sequence, and Table in Hibernate. In my previous post I talked about different database identifier strategies. This post will compare the most common surrogate. Generator classes in hibernate are used to generate the primary key ids, the types we have sequence, identity, increment, hilo, native and foreign and uuid generators. Here we discussed hilo generator formula in detaild explanation. Aug 08, 2017  Every JPA entity is required to have a field which maps to primary key of the database table. Such field must be annotated with @Id. Simple vs Composite primary keys. A simple primary key consists of a single Java field which maps to a single table column. A composite primary key consists of multiple Java fields which individually map to.

Every JPA entity must have a primary key.

You can specify a primary key as a single primitive, or JDK object type entity field (see 'Configuring a JPA Entity Simple Primary Key Field').

  1. As you’ve seen, JPA offers 4 different ways to generate primary key values: AUTO: Hibernate selects the generation strategy based on the used dialect,; IDENTITY: Hibernate relies on an auto-incremented database column to generate the primary key,; SEQUENCE: Hibernate requests the primary key value from a database sequence,; TABLE: Hibernate uses a database.
  2. Aug 08, 2017 Every JPA entity is required to have a field which maps to primary key of the database table. Such field must be annotated with @Id. Simple vs Composite primary keys. A simple primary key consists of a single Java field which maps to a single table column. A composite primary key consists of multiple Java fields which individually map to.

You can specify a composite primary key made up of one or more primitive, or JDK object types using a separate composite primary key class (see 'Configuring a JPA Entity Composite Primary Key Class').

You can either assign primary key values yourself, or you can associate a primary key field with a primary key value generator (see 'Configuring JPA Entity Automatic Primary Key Generation').

Configuring a JPA Entity Simple Primary Key Field

The simplest primary key is one you specify as a single primitive or JDK object type entity field (see 'Using Annotations').

Note:

For a JPA entity primary key field code example, see: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/ejb3/howtos-ejb3/howtoejb30mappingannotations/doc/how-to-ejb30-mapping-annotations.html#id

Using Annotations

Example 7-1 shows how to use the @Id annotation to specify an entity field as the primary key. In this example, primary key values are generated using a table generator (see 'Configuring JPA Entity Automatic Primary Key Generation').

Configuring a JPA Entity Composite Primary Key Class

A composite primary key is usually made up of two or more primitive or JDK object types. Composite primary keys typically arise when mapping from legacy databases when the database key is comprised of several columns. You can specify such a composite primary key with a separate composite primary key class (see 'Using Annotations')

A composite primary key class has the following characteristics:

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  • It is a POJO class.

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  • If you use property-based access, the properties of the primary key class must be public or protected.

  • It must be serializable.

  • It must define equals and hashCode methods.

    The semantics of value equality for these methods must be consistent with the database equality for the database types to which the key is mapped.

You can make the composite primary key class either an embedded class owned by the entity class, or a nonembedded class whose fields you map to multiple fields or properties of the entity class. In the latter case, the names of primary key fields or properties in the composite primary key class and those of the entity class must correspond and their types must be the same.

Using Annotations

Example 7-2 shows a typical embeddable composite primary key class. Example 7-3 shows how to configure a JPA entity with this embedded composite primary key class using the @EmbeddedId annotation.

Example 7-2 Embeddable Composite Primary Key Class

Example 7-3 JPA Entity With an Embedded Composite Primary Key Class

Example 7-5 shows a nonembedded composite primary key class. In this class, fields empName and birthDay must correspond in name and type to properties in the entity class. Example 7-5 shows how to configure a JPA entity with this nonembedded composite primary key class using the @IdClass annotation. Because entity class fields empName and birthDay are used in the primary key, you must also annotate them using the @Id annotation.

Example 7-4 Non-Embedded Composite Primary Key Class

Example 7-5 JPA Entity With a Mapped Composite Primary Key Class

Configuring JPA Entity Automatic Primary Key Generation

Typically, you associate a primary key field (see 'Configuring a JPA Entity Simple Primary Key Field') with a primary key value generator so that when an entity instance is created, a new, unique primary key value is assigned automatically.

Table 7-2 lists the types of primary key value generators that you can define.

Table 7-2 JPA Entity Primary Key Value Generators

TypeDescriptionFor more information, see .

Generated Id Table

A database table that the container uses to store generated primary key values for entities. Typically shared by multiple entity types that use table-based primary key generation. Each entity type will typically use its own row in the table to generate the primary key values for that entity class. Primary key values are positive integers.

'Table Sequencing' in the Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide

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A primary key generator, which you can reference by name, defined at one of the package, class, method, or field level. The level at which you define it will depend upon the desired visibility and sharing of the generator. No scoping or visibility rules are actually enforced. Oracle recommends that you define the generator at the level for which it will be used.

This generator is based on a database table.

'Table Sequencing' in the Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide

Sequence Generator

A primary key generator which you can reference by name, defined at one of the package, class, method, or field level. The level, at which you define it, will depend upon the desired visibility and sharing of the generator. No scoping or visibility rules are actually enforced. Oracle recommends that you define the generator at the level for which it will be used.

This generator is based on a sequence object that the database server provides.

'Native Sequencing With an Oracle Database Platform' in the Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide

'Native Sequencing With a Non-Oracle Database Platform' in the Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide


Primary Key Generator In Hibernate 2017

Note:

For an EJB 3.0 automatic primary key generation code example, see: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/ejb3/howtos-ejb3/howtoejb30mappingannotations/doc/how-to-ejb30-mapping-annotations.html#sequencing

Using Annotations

Example 7-6 shows how to use the @TableGenerator annotation to specify a primary key value generator based on a database table. The TopLink JPA persistence provider will attempt to create this table at deployment time: if it cannot, then you must follow your database documentation to ensure that this table exists before deployment. When a new instance of Address is created, a new value for entity field id is obtained from ADDRESS_GENERATOR_TABLE. In this case, you must set the @GeneratedValue annotation attribute strategy to TABLE and generator to ADDRESS_TABLE_GENERATOR.

Example 7-6 GeneratedValue Strategy Table: @TableGenerator

Example 7-7 shows how to use the @SequenceGenerator annotation to specify a primary key value generator based on a sequence object provided by the database. The TopLink JPA persistence provider will attempt to create this object at deployment time: if it cannot, then you must follow your database documentation to ensure that this sequence object exists before deployment. When a new instance of Address is created, a new value for entity field id is obtained from database sequence object ADDRESS_SEQ. In this case, you must set the @GeneratedValue annotation attribute strategy to SEQUENCE and generator to ADDRESS_SEQUENCE_GENERATOR.

Example 7-7 GeneratedValue Strategy Sequence: @SequenceGenerator

Example 7-8 shows how to use the @GeneratedValue annotation to specify a primary key value generator based on a primary key identity column (autonumber column). When a new instance of Address is persisted, the database assigns a value to the identity column. In this case, the TopLink JPA persistence provider re-reads the inserted row and updates the in-memory Address entity to set id to this value.

Greenhorn
posted 14 years ago
I have a table which has no primary key. How to create the hibernate mapping xml without using the generator id
Ranch Hand
posted 14 years ago

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Every relational table has a 'natural' primary key. However, it may be unrecognized and undefined. The best solution to your problem then is to determine what the primary key is and define it as such in your RDBMS.
Having said that, it is better to use a surrogate key for the primary key to protect against business semantics changes in the natural key. So why not use a generated id?
Bartender
posted 14 years ago
Edwin Keeton's suggestion is good. Using a surrogate makes perfect sense; fix the invalid data model so it truly represents relational data.
However, if you cannot change the data model, you can map the entire table as one big composite key. A horrible solution, but a work around which gives you time to fire the DBA who modelled your data this way, and hire a competent replacement.
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Ranch Hand
posted 14 years ago

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Originally posted by Ehrenfrids:
I have a table which has no primary key. How to create the hibernate mapping xml without using the generator id


How are you accessing records in that table when not using Hibernate? i.e. when you use SQL directly.
Ranch Hand
posted 14 years ago
Well, when you don't have a primary key and want to access a specific row, I suppose your query will contain all fields, right? So, as weird as it may seem, you could use a composite-key with all fields in it.
Ranch Hand
posted 14 years ago
Now, that's for a key not using the generator! For generating a value, you would have to create a field in the DB and use is as your PK.
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
The problem might not be so simple to adress. Suppose I work with a legacy database and I have a readonly table (imported from a back-office) and I don't want to access individual rows in that table (I want just to list the records obtained form a join).
So: I can't add surogate key (I can't change the database) and I don't have a natural (business) key.
What about that?
Bartender
posted 13 years ago

Originally posted by Ionescu Victor:
The problem might not be so simple to adress. Suppose I work with a legacy database and I have a readonly table (imported from a back-office) and I don't want to access individual rows in that table (I want just to list the records obtained form a join).
So: I can't add surogate key (I can't change the database) and I don't have a natural (business) key.
What about that?


See my earlier answer. That's the only work around you have available to you.
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
Well, I've a legacy database. I don't care to have a IF/Primary key. is there a way? or Hibernate just takes away that option?
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
I tried using a big composite key. Hibernate generates a column on MySql.In development, may be I can live with that, but not in production. I'm no expert on Hibernate but this should be easy.
Bartender
posted 13 years ago


I'm no expert on Hibernate but this should be easy


An Object-Relational Mapping tool can only be expected to map relational data. Data without a primary key it is not relational, so it should be no surprise it doesn't work.
Greenhorn
posted 10 years ago
As the table has no primary key, it should not be mapped as an entity.
You could use a named query to insert data instead of declaring an entity, and perform the insert from the dao.
Greenhorn
posted 8 years ago
ORM is to map relations through primary and foreign key to database. If you are not having those on tables then you can use, criteria search with HQL or SQL and populated fetched data into related objects. These objects can be used for further. Example can be found at http://www.deepakgaikwad.net/?p=448