Hibernate One-To-One Mapping Example

In this example you will learn how to map one-to-one relationship using Hibernate. Consider the following relationship between Student and Address entity.

According to the relationship each student should have a unique address.

To create this relationship you need to have a STUDENT and ADDRESS table. The relational model is shown below.

To create the STUDENT and ADDRESS table you need to create the following hibernate mapping files.

Student.hbm.xml is used to create the STUDENT table.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC

"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"

"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="com.vaannila.student.Student" table="STUDENT">

<meta attribute="class-description">This class contains student details.</meta>

<id name="studentId" type="long" column="STUDENT_ID">

<generator class="native" />

</id>

<property name="studentName" type="string" not-null="true"length="100" column="STUDENT_NAME" />

<many-to-one name="studentAddress"class="com.vaannila.student.Address" column="STUDENT_ADDRESS" not-null="true" cascade="all" unique="true" />

</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

We use the many-to-one element to create the one-to-one relationship between the Student andAddress entities. We do this my making the STUDENT_ADDRESS column unique in the STUDENTtable.

Address.hbm.xml is used to create the ADDRESS table.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC

"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"

"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="com.vaannila.student.Address" table="ADDRESS">

<meta attribute="class-description">This class contains the student's address

details.</meta>

<id name="addressId" type="long" column="ADDRESS_ID">

<generator class="native" />

</id>

<property name="street" column="ADDRESS_STREET" type="string"length="250" />

<property name="city" column="ADDRESS_CITY" type="string" length="50"/>

<property name="state" column="ADDRESS_STATE" type="string"length="50" />

<property name="zipcode" column="ADDRESS_ZIPCODE" type="string"length="10" />

</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

Now create the hibernate configuration file and add all the mapping files.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC

"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"

"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>

<session-factory>

<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class"> org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver </property>

<property name="hibernate.connection.url"> jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost<;/property>

<property name="hibernate.connection.username">sa</property>

<property name="connection.password"></property>

<property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>

<property name="hibernate.dialect"> org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect </property>

<property name="show_sql">true</property>

<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</property>

<mapping resource="com/vaannila/student/Student.hbm.xml"/>

<mapping resource="com/vaannila/student/Address.hbm.xml"/>

</session-factory>

</hibernate-configuration>

After creating the configuration file, generate java class files using Hibernate Tools.(To generate code using Hibernate Tools refer this example )

The following classes will be generated.

package com.vaannila.student;

 

// Generated Sep 3, 2009 7:20:37 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.4.GA

 

/**

* This class contains student details.

*/

public class Student implements java.io.Serializable {

 

private long studentId;

private String studentName;

private Address studentAddress;

 

public Student() {

}

 

public Student(String studentName, Address studentAddress) {

this.studentName = studentName;

this.studentAddress = studentAddress;

}

 

public long getStudentId() {

return this.studentId;

}

 

public void setStudentId(long studentId) {

this.studentId = studentId;

}

 

// setters and getters for all attributes

 

}

package com.vaannila.student;

 

// Generated Sep 3, 2009 7:20:37 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.4.GA

 

/**

* This class contains the student's address

*          details.

*/

public class Address implements java.io.Serializable {

 

private long addressId;

private String street;

private String city;

private String state;

private String zipcode;

 

public Address() {

}

 

public Address(String street, String city, String state, String zipcode) {

this.street = street;

this.city = city;

this.state = state;

this.zipcode = zipcode;

}

 

//setters and getters

Create the Main class to run the example.

package com.vaannila.student;

 

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;

import org.hibernate.Session;

import org.hibernate.Transaction;

 

import com.vaannila.util.HibernateUtil;

 

public class Main {

 

public static void main(String[] args) {

Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();

Transaction transaction = null;

try {

transaction = session.beginTransaction();

Address address1 = new Address("OMR Road", "Chennai", "TN","600097");

Address address2 = new Address("Ring Road", "Banglore","Karnataka", "560000");

Student student1 = new Student("Eswar", address1);

Student student2 = new Student("Joe", address2);

session.save(student1);

session.save(student2);

transaction.commit();

} catch (HibernateException e) {

transaction.rollback();

e.printStackTrace();

} finally {

session.close();

}

 

}

 

}