Hibernate Inverse attribute

Question

I am creating a one-to-many relationship. so, i have a parent and a child. The cascade attribute is set to all.

I was wondering, if we consider the following piece of co

Answer 1

If we are using inverse=true, means the child is responsible to update relation ship. Compulsory child object should contain the parent object else foreign key is not updated.

Answer 2

In a parent child relation ship between two different entities,

e.g one to many(1:N) or many to one(N:1)

Parent <-> Child. (Owner) (Inverse)

If parent is owner then child is its inverse.

Using the inverse is always check for child.

By default we always consider from parent side. So by default inverse = false means parent is owner.

If inverse= true then child is owner. So persisting of entity will always take from owner side.

Answer 3

Case inverse = false:

In this case, it is parent's responsibility to save-update child and its relationship. So in your example, child will be updated in database. There will be two sql queries: 1) Insert child. 2) Update child with foreign key of parent id.

Case Inverse = true:

In this case , it is child's responsibility to save-update itself. So in your code, child will be saved in database but foreign key of parent will be null. Only one sql query will be executed and that is of insert child. For updating parent's foreign key, you need to manually save child.

Child child = new Child();
child.setParent(parent);
session.save(child);

I think, answer of these cases explains answer of your third question.

Hope this help.

Answer 4

Inverse is only to tell NH that the foreign key is mapped twice, usually as a one-to-many and a many-to-one, and that it therefore only needs to be stored from one side.

Q1) the child is stored by cascade, but the parent-FK is null. (Except you set the parent relation in the child within p.addChild(c).)

Q2) same as Q1.

Q3) exactly.