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Cristiano Fontes
Cristiano Fontes

Reputation: 5088

How to make a @ManyToOne field mandatory in JPA2?

I am designing the persistence repository for an app.

I am new to Hibernate+JPA2 and I am having trouble creating more complex relationships in this case a Foreign mandatory key.

An example (just wrote on notepad, so it's not exactly this.)

I have a Top Class called Person which can hold several Posts (another class).

If I map my top class like this

@Entity
@Table(name="tb_people")
public class Person{
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    public long         id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="person")
    List<Post>          listOfPosts;

    .
    . more code
    .

}

@Entity
@Table(name="tb_posts")
public class Post{

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    public long         id;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "person_id")
    Person              person;

    .
    .more code
    .

}

How can I using annotations make the person field in Post mandatory ?

I tryed with @Column(nullable=false) but I get an exception telling me I cannot use that annotation on a @ManyToOne Collection.

Thank you !

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4021

Answers (3)

oujesky
oujesky

Reputation: 2856

It should be enough to just use @ManyToOne(optional = false)

Upvotes: 1

Vladimir Tsukanov
Vladimir Tsukanov

Reputation: 4459

Or you can just use @NotNull from javax.validations.constraints package.

Upvotes: 2

Bogdan
Bogdan

Reputation: 5406

You have to use @JoinColumn(name=..., nullable=false) not @Column

See the complete API

Upvotes: 6

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