23.3. Customer/Order/Product
In this section we consider a model of the relationships between
Customer, Order, Line Item and Product. There is a one-to-many association between Customer and Order, but how can you represent Order / LineItem / Product? In the example, LineItem is mapped as an association class representing the many-to-many association between Order and Product. In Hibernate this is called a composite element.
The mapping document will look like this:
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="Customer" table="customers">
<id name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="name"/>
<set name="orders" inverse="true">
<key column="customer_id"/>
<one-to-many class="Order"/>
</set>
</class>
<class name="Order" table="orders">
<id name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="date"/>
<many-to-one name="customer" column="customer_id"/>
<list name="lineItems" table="line_items">
<key column="order_id"/>
<list-index column="line_number"/>
<composite-element class="LineItem">
<property name="quantity"/>
<many-to-one name="product" column="product_id"/>
</composite-element>
</list>
</class>
<class name="Product" table="products">
<id name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="serialNumber"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>customers, orders, line_items and products hold customer, order, order line item and product data respectively. line_items also acts as an association table linking orders with products.
create table customers (
id BIGINT not null generated by default as identity,
name VARCHAR(255),
primary key (id)
)
create table orders (
id BIGINT not null generated by default as identity,
customer_id BIGINT,
date TIMESTAMP,
primary key (id)
)
create table line_items (
line_number INTEGER not null,
order_id BIGINT not null,
product_id BIGINT,
quantity INTEGER,
primary key (order_id, line_number)
)
create table products (
id BIGINT not null generated by default as identity,
serialNumber VARCHAR(255),
primary key (id)
)
alter table orders
add constraint ordersFK0 foreign key (customer_id) references customers
alter table line_items
add constraint line_itemsFK0 foreign key (product_id) references products
alter table line_items
add constraint line_itemsFK1 foreign key (order_id) references orders