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hibernateduplicates
Bagbyte
Bagbyte

Reputation: 863

Hibernate, how to avoid duplicates?

my table has 3 columns: ID, City, District.

My web service give in input a list of couples (City, District). I need to avoid couples (City, District) duplicates.

How can I achieve this result? I can't use session.saveOrUpdate() because due to a different ID, all the records seems always different.

Please help me.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1828

Answers (1)

DrColossos
DrColossos

Reputation: 12998

The comment suggests what you should do

CONSTRAINT city_district_unique UNIQUE (city, district)

create a UNIQUE constraint for the fields. This can also be done with JPA annotations when you want to create the table with Hibernate

@Table(name = "yourtable", uuniqueConstraints = {@UniqueConstraint(columnNames = "subject"), ... })

When inserting, you should catch the Exception from the violation of the above constraint and handle it properly, like re-running the insert with changed parameters or ignore it at all. Even better, check your data befor it gets to Hibernate to avoid the invalid inserts beforehand.

Upvotes: 4

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