javax.persistence.AssociationOverride Maven / Gradle / Ivy
// $Id: AssociationOverride.java 17752 2009-10-15 01:19:21Z [email protected] $
// EJB3 Specification Copyright 2004-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
package javax.persistence;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
/**
* Used to override a mapping for an entity relationship.
*
* May be applied to an entity that extends a mapped superclass to
* override a relationship mapping defined by the mapped
* superclass. If not specified, the association is mapped the same as
* in the original mapping. When used to override a mapping defined by
* a mapped superclass, AssociationOverride is applied to
* the entity class.
*
*
May be used to override a relationship mapping from an
* embeddable within an entity to another entity when the embeddable
* is on the owning side of the relationship. When used to override a
* relationship mapping defined by an embeddable class (including an
* embeddable class embedded within another embeddable class),
* AssociationOverride is applied to the field or
* property containing the embeddable.
*
*
When AssociationOverride is used to override a
* relationship mapping from an embeddable class, the
* name element specifies the referencing relationship
* field or property within the embeddable class. To override mappings
* at multiple levels of embedding, a dot (".") notation syntax must
* be used in the name element to indicate an attribute
* within an embedded attribute. The value of each identifier used
* with the dot notation is the name of the respective embedded field
* or property.
*
*
When AssociationOverride is applied to override
* the mappings of an embeddable class used as a map value,
* "value." must be used to prefix the name of the
* attribute within the embeddable class that is being overridden in
* order to specify it as part of the map value.
*
*
If the relationship mapping is a foreign key mapping, the
* joinColumns element is used. If the relationship
* mapping uses a join table, the joinTable element must
* be specified to override the mapping of the join table and/or its
* join columns.
*
*
*
* Example 1: Overriding the mapping of a relationship defined by a mapped superclass
*
* @MappedSuperclass
* public class Employee {
* ...
* @ManyToOne
* protected Address address;
* ...
* }
*
* @Entity
* @AssociationOverride(name="address",
* joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="ADDR_ID"))
* // address field mapping overridden to ADDR_ID foreign key
* public class PartTimeEmployee extends Employee {
* ...
* }
*
*
*
* Example 2: Overriding the mapping for phoneNumbers defined in the ContactInfo class
*
* @Entity
* public class Employee {
* @Id int id;
* @AssociationOverride(
* name="phoneNumbers",
* joinTable=@JoinTable(
* name="EMPPHONES",
* joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="EMP"),
* inverseJoinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="PHONE")
* )
* )
* @Embedded ContactInfo contactInfo;
* ...
* }
*
* @Embeddable
* public class ContactInfo {
* @ManyToOne Address address; // Unidirectional
* @ManyToMany(targetEntity=PhoneNumber.class) List phoneNumbers;
* }
*
* @Entity
* public class PhoneNumber {
* @Id int number;
* @ManyToMany(mappedBy="contactInfo.phoneNumbers")
* Collection<Employee> employees;
* }
*
*
* @see Embedded
* @see Embeddable
* @see MappedSuperclass
* @see AttributeOverride
*
* @since Java Persistence 1.0
*/
@Target({TYPE, METHOD, FIELD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface AssociationOverride {
/**
* (Required) The name of the relationship property whose mapping is
* being overridden if property-based access is being used,
* or the name of the relationship field if field-based access is used.
*/
String name();
/**
* The join column(s) being mapped to the persistent attribute(s).
* The joinColumns elements must be specified if a
* foreign key mapping is used in the overriding of the mapping of
* the relationship. The joinColumns element must
* not be specified if a join table is used in the overriding of
* the mapping of the relationship.
*/
JoinColumn[] joinColumns() default {};
/**
* The join table that maps the relationship.
* The joinTable element must be specified if a join table
* is used in the overriding of the mapping of the
* relationship. The joinTable element must not be specified
* if a foreign key mapping is used in the overriding of
* the relationship.
*
* @since Java Persistence 2.0
*/
JoinTable joinTable() default @JoinTable;
}