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JPA delete an entry from list in Many-To-Many relationship

Those are my classes. I want to delete items from likedCourses. So I expect JPA to delete item from course_like table. I looked and try to understand from other examples but couldn't. It is like deletion doesn't exist in JPA realm when there is relation. It is good for selecting though. I'd want to share what I tried but I couldn't find anything about it.
Note : I see that in ManyToMany relationship there is not orphanRemoval option.
#Entity
class Student {
#Id
Long id;
#ManyToMany
#JoinTable(
name = "course_like",
joinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "student_id"),
inverseJoinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "course_id"))
Set<Course> likedCourses
}
#Entity
class Course {
#Id
Long id;
#ManyToMany(mappedBy = "likedCourses")
Set<Student> likes;
}

If you want to remove an entry from the course_like table, you will have to load the Student and remove the element from the likedCourses set that should be removed. If you do that in a #Transactional method, you will see that Hibernate will emit delete statements to delete the rows that represent the removed objects from the likedCourses set. That's the magic of an ORM, it synchronizes the object graph with the database, without you telling it to emit statement A, B, ...

Hibernate + Spring Boot: any way to use a jointable as an entity?

Let's say I have tables PERSON and COMPANY, connected by the table PERSON_COMPANY in which aside from the foreign keys I also store information about update_date, create_date and status of the connection:
This is how I've realized the connection in Person class, which works well:
#ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinTable(name = "person_contact",
joinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "person_id"),
inverseJoinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "company_id"))
private List<Company> companyList;
The problem comes when I try to create an entity for PERSON_COMPANY table as there is information that I will need in some cases:
#Entity
#Table(name="person_company")
public class PersonCompany {
...
}
I get an SchemaManagementException: Export identifier [person_company] encountered more than once.
Is there a way to use a join table as an entity as well?
I'm using springboot and hibernate with mariaDB.

Why does persisting entity twice avoid errors around cascading for entity with join columns

Why does this unit test fail if i do not perform the setup of the entity Role in two steps (two persists).
The error being:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: During synchronization a new object was found through a relationship that was not marked cascade PERSIST: io.osram.olt.extension.jpa.Role#16daa399.
private Role addRoleWithId(String roleId){
Role myRole = new Role();
myRole.setRoleId(roleId);
myRole.setRealmId("my");
myRole.setDescription("role-description-0");
myRole.setExternalCreator(true);
myRole.setName("role-name-0");
em.persist(myRole); //<--- Without this persisting the role fails with the error above.
//Setup joins:
myRole.setAContext(getApplications().get(0));
myRole.setAnotherContext(getTenants().get(0));
em.persist(myRole);
return myRole;
}
...
The Role Entity:
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(name = "ANOTHER_CONTEXT_ID")
private AnotherContext anotherContext;
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(name = "ACONTEXT_ID")
private AContext aContext;
...
public Role setAContext(AContext aContext) {
this.aContext = aContext;
if(aContext != null) {
aContext.addRole(this);
}
return this;
}
public Role setAnotherContext(AnotherContext anotherContext) {
this.anotherContext = anotherContext;
if(anotherContext != null){
anotherContext.addRole(this);
}
return this;
}
...
The AContext and AnotherContext both contain similar relations towards role:
#OneToMany
#JoinTable(
name="OLT_ROLES_ACONTEXT",
joinColumns = #JoinColumn( name="ACONTEXT_ID"),
inverseJoinColumns = #JoinColumn( name="ROLE_ID")
)
private Set<Role> roles = new HashSet<Role>();
It seems by creating the object in two steps I can avoid using cascading.

In your setAContext and setAnotherContext methods, you are trying to set the Role object which is not yet persisted.
So It's clear that it will not work without em.persist(myRole); before you set contexts since you have not specified CaseCadeType.PERSIST.

The default setting for cascading is cascade NONE , which causes the relationships in the persisted entity not to be persisted by default.
the corollary is that if you try to persist an entity without cascade.PERSIST to its relationship while the relationship is not managed , you will get the above exception.
An exception of the corollary is that if the entity you are persisting is the owner of the relation and the attribute in the relation is already in the database, yo will be able to persist it.
One small thing that I noticed in your mapping : It's a double unidirectional, one with a join column and the reverse with a join table, so is this intended?

#ManyToMany - data does not persist in Database

Simplifying, in my database I have tables:
Car (pk="id_car")
CarAddon (pk="id_car_fk,id_addon_fk",
`FK_car_addon_addon` FOREIGN KEY (`id_addon_fk`) REFERENCES `addon` (`id_addon`)
`FK_car_addon_car` FOREIGN KEY (`id_car_fk`) REFERENCES `car` (`id_car`)
Addon (pk="id_addon")
Shortly: I have cars, many cars can has many addons (like ABS etc).
There are tables with cars, addons, and one table which is logical connection.
Overall, entities work fine. I have no problems with persist data, when I want persist single object. I don't have problems, when I want FETCH data, ie. Car->getAddon();
But, when I'm going to persisting a collection, nothing happens. No exceptions were thrown, there were no new data in database.
//DBManager is a singleton to create an EntityManager
EntityManager em = DBManager.getManager().createEntityManager();
em.getTransaction().begin();
Addon addon1 = new Addon();
addon1.setName("czesc1");
em.persist(addon1);
Addon addon2 = new Addon();
addon2.setName("czesc2");
em.persist(addon2);
car.setAddonCollection(new ArrayList<Addon>());
car.getAddonCollection().add(addon1);
car.getAddonCollection().add(addon2);
em.persist(car);
em.getTransaction().commit();
In this case, addons were stored in Addon table, car in Car table. There are no new data in CarAddon table though object car has good data (there is addon collection in debbuger).
When I changed em.persist(car) to em.merge(car) I got an exception:
"SEVERE: Persistence error in /admin/AddAuction : java.lang.IllegalStateException: During synchronization a new object was found through a relationship that was not marked cascade PERSIST: model.entity.Car[ idCar=0 ]."
Simple version of my classess:
#Entity
#Table(name = "addon")
#XmlRootElement
#NamedQueries({...})
public class Addon implements Serializable {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Basic(optional = false)
#NotNull
#Column(name = "id_addon")
private Integer idAddon;
#Size(max = 100)
#Column(name = "name")
private String name;
#JoinTable(name = "car_addon",
joinColumns = {
#JoinColumn(name = "id_addon_fk", referencedColumnName = "id_addon")},
inverseJoinColumns = {
#JoinColumn(name = "id_car_fk", referencedColumnName = "id_car")})
#ManyToMany
private List<Car> carCollection;
#XmlTransient
public List<Car> getCarCollection() {
return carCollection;
}
public void setCarCollection(List<Car> carCollection) {
this.carCollection = carCollection;
}
}
#Entity
#Table(name = "car")
#XmlRootElement
#NamedQueries({...)
public class Car implements Serializable {
#ManyToMany(mappedBy = "carCollection", fetch= FetchType.EAGER, cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
private List<Addon> addonCollection;
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Basic(optional = false)
#NotNull
#Column(name = "id_car")
private Integer idCar;
#XmlTransient
public List<Addon> getAddonCollection() {
return addonCollection;
}
public void setAddonCollection(List<Addon> addonCollection) {
this.addonCollection = addonCollection;
}
}
How can I fix it?
ps1. I have:
cascade=CascadeType.ALL przy #ManyToMany private List<Car> carCollection
but this dos not solve my problem.
ps2. I am using Netbeans 7, EclipseLink and MySQL (not Hibernate - I have problem with it)

I have one theory that always seems to trip people up with many-to-many collections. The problem is that in memory, the associations are made in two places. Both in the car's addons list and in the addon's cars list. In the database, there isn't such a duplication.
The way JPA providers get around this is through the mappedBy attribute. Since you have mappedBy on the car's addons list this means that the relationship is actually controlled by the addon's cars list (confusing I know).
Try adding the following:
addon1.setCarCollection(new ArrayList<Car>());
addon1.getCarCollection().add(car);
addon2.setCarCollection(new ArrayList<Car>());
addon2.getCarCollection().add(car);
before you persist the car.

Generally speaking, I would avoid many-to-many associations. What you really have is an intermediate link table, with a one-to-many and a many-to-one. As soon as you add anything of interest to that link table (e.g. datestamp for when the association was made), poof, you are no longer working with a pure many-to-many. Add in the confusion around the "owner" of the association, and you're just making things a lot harder than they should be.

could you try add
#JoinTable(name = "car_addon",
joinColumns = {
#JoinColumn(name = "id_addon_fk", referencedColumnName = "id_addon")},
inverseJoinColumns = {
#JoinColumn(name = "id_car_fk", referencedColumnName = "id_car")})
to both side
just reverse the joinColumns and inverseJoinColumns

Try adding (fetch = FetchType.EAGER) to your ManyToMany annotation

JoinTable is lost

I have a the two following classes:
#Entity
class A {
#Id
private aId;
#ManyToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
#JoinTable(name = "AB", joinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "aId", referencedColumnName = "aId"), inverseJoinColumns = #JoinColumn(name = "bId", referencedColumnName = "bId"))
private Set<B> bSet;
}
#Entity
class B {
#Id
private bId;
}
I load the complete object structure from one database and then enters a new transaction on the second database to persist the structure again. However the "AB" table is left empty. This is very strange as "B" is persisted though I only explicitly persist "A". I have check that A-objects contains non empty sets of B, so that is not a problem.
This leaves me with the conclusion that Hibernate believes that "AB"-table should exist as both "A" and "B" already have their primary keys. Is there a way around this so I can get Hibernate to persist the join-table in the second database?

I guess this is happening because you are using proxy object.That is if you create instances of A and B with new operator and then call persist ,Join table record will be created .But you are using object from obtained from entitymanager(these are proxy objects) so you have to merge object that way entitymanager will create new proxies of this objects.