Parent Id null in @OneToMany mapping JPA

Question

I am using javax.persistence.OneToMany relationship in a Parent Child relationship. The parent Id is coming as null, I have read through all the related post in Stackoverflow but not getting any clue what I am missing. All the Corresponding PKs are getting populated in both Parent & Child tables as per the Sequence Provided, but the FK is set to null in Child table

Parent Class:

@Entity
@Table(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE")
public class DiversityTemplate implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @SequenceGenerator(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID", sequenceName = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID", allocationSize = 1)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    @Column(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    private Integer diversityTemplateId;

    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "diversityTemplate", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    private List<DiversityTemplateAttribute> attributes = new ArrayList<>();

Child Class:

@Entity
@Table(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTRIBUTE")
@TypeName("DiversityTemplateAttribute")
public class DiversityTemplateAttribute implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @SequenceGenerator(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID", sequenceName = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID", allocationSize = 1)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID")
    @Column(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID")
    private Integer diversityTemplateAttributeId;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID", nullable=false, referencedColumnName = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    private DiversityTemplate diversityTemplate;

Service Class:

 diversityTemplateRepository.save(diversityTemplate);

Sample json

{
  "diversityTemplateId": 0,
  "attributes": [{
    "diversityTemplateId": 0,
    "diversityTemplateAttributeId": 0,
  }, {
    "diversityTemplateId": 0,
    "diversityTemplateAttributeId": 0,
  }]
}

Please suggest.

Answer 1

I know it's too late but you can also do...

Parent Class:

@Entity
@Table(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE")
public class DiversityTemplate implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @SequenceGenerator(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID", sequenceName = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID", allocationSize = 1)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    @Column(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    private Integer diversityTemplateId;

    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    private List<DiversityTemplateAttribute> attributes = new ArrayList<>();

Child Class:

@Entity
@Table(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTRIBUTE")
@TypeName("DiversityTemplateAttribute")
public class DiversityTemplateAttribute implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @SequenceGenerator(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID", sequenceName = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID", allocationSize = 1)
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID")
    @Column(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ATTR_ID")
    private Integer diversityTemplateAttributeId;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    private DiversityTemplate diversityTemplate;

Service Class:

diversityTemplateRepository.save(diversityTemplate);

This way you DON'T NEED TO DO PARENT ENTRY IN EACH CHILD. it will do by itself. you just need to save parent that's it.

Quick steps what I did.

1. Removed mappedBy from Parent.
2. Added @JoinCollumn foreign key in Parent
3. Removed @JoinCollumn from Child.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

@JsonManagedReference 
@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "DIVERSITY_TEMPLATE_ID")
    private List<DiversityTemplateAttribute> attributes = new ArrayList<>();
.
.
.
.
@JsonBackRefrence
 @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    private DiversityTemplate diversityTemplate;

these JsonManagedReference and JsonBackReference are provided by jackson library to let the JPA know on which class it should serialize and on which it shouldnt... so that we can avoid Infinite recursion... more about this in here!