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7.2.4. Collections of values and many-to-many associations
Any collection of values or many-to-many associations requires a dedicated collection table with a foreign key column or columns, collection element column or columns, and possibly an index column or columns.
For a collection of values use the
<element>
tag. For example:
column (optional): the name of the column holding the collection element values.
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formula (optional): an SQL formula used to evaluate the element.
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type (required): the type of the collection element.
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A many-to-many association is specified using the
<many-to-many>
element.
column (optional): the name of the element foreign key column.
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formula (optional): an SQL formula used to evaluate the element foreign key value.
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class (required): the name of the associated class.
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fetch (optional - defaults to join ): enables outer-join or sequential select fetching for this association. This is a special case; for full eager fetching in a single SELECT of an entity and its many-to-many relationships to other entities, you would enable join fetching,not only of the collection itself, but also with this attribute on the <many-to-many> nested element.
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unique (optional): enables the DDL generation of a unique constraint for the foreign-key column. This makes the association multiplicity effectively one-to-many.
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not-found (optional - defaults to exception ): specifies how foreign keys that reference missing rows will be handled: ignore will treat a missing row as a null association.
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entity-name (optional): the entity name of the associated class, as an alternative to class .
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property-ref (optional): the name of a property of the associated class that is joined to this foreign key. If not specified, the primary key of the associated class is used.
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Here are some examples.
A set of strings:
<set name="names" table="person_names"> <key column="person_id"/> <element column="person_name" type="string"/> </set>
<set name="names" table="person_names">
<key column="person_id"/>
<element column="person_name" type="string"/>
</set>
A bag containing integers with an iteration order determined by the
order-by
attribute:
An array of entities, in this case, a many-to-many association:
A map from string indices to dates:
A list of components (this is discussed in the next chapter):