How to join fields of two tables using Hibernate?

Question

I have two tables and related Java mapping.

CREATE TABLE country (
    code VARCHAR(3) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
    name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
);


CREATE TABLE user (
    id INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
    country_code VARCHAR(3),
    FOREIGN KEY ( country_code ) REFERENCES country ( code )
);

Here is my Java entities. Country POJO:

@Entity
@Table(name = "country")
public class Country {

    @Id
    @Column (name = "code")
    private String code;

    @Column (name = "name")
    private String name;

And User POJO:

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class User implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Integer id;

    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name = "country_code")
    private String countryCode;

Question is how can I join Contry.code to User.countryCode in Hibernate using annotation? When I create User object with Hibernate I need to bind these two fields (code and countryCode) automatically.

Answer 1

You need @OneToMany mapping from Country to User entity and corresponding @ManyToOne mapping from User to Country:

@Entity
@Table(name = "country")
public class Country {

    @Id
    @Column (name = "code")
    private String code;

    @Column (name = "name")
    private String name;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "country")
    private Set<User> users;
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class User implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Integer id;

    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "country_code")
    private Country country;
}