Let me investigate this further first. Ideally the engine would use the right column names ie the fk and not the ones from the entity ids. I must have messed up when I fixed the bug I discussed with you. On 24 sept. 2012, at 20:20, Guillaume SCHEIBEL <guillaume.scheibel(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm working on OGM-236 which consists to use by default the IN_ENTITY mode > for association storage strategy instead of COLLECTION. > I've just found out a little issue, when we use @JoinColumns over a > @OneToMany property to map an @EmbeddedID with the IN_ENTITY mode, the > navigation information are not stored directly into the document itself but > another document composed by the join columns as the _id and the navigation > information (in that case the IDs that the entity is related to). > > Concretely, let's starting from this mapping: > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/hibernate-ogm-core... > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/hibernate-ogm-core... > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/hibernate-ogm-core... > > and run this test with the IN_ENTITY mode on (to make the switch, a > modification into MongoDBDatastoreProvider.configure() is needed) > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/hibernate-ogm-core... > > > We can expect to have something like: > > { > "_id": { > "author": "Guillaume", > "title": "There are more than 20 JUGs in France" > }, > "content": "Great! Congratulations folks", > "labels": [ > > { "id": NumberLong(5) } > > ] > > } > > It means this News is related to 1 Label of which ID is 5. > But due to @JoinColumns we got this (both documents are from the News > collection): > > { > "_id": { > "author": "Guillaume", > "title": "There are more than 20 JUGs in France" > }, > "content": "Great! Congratulations folks", > "labels": [] > } { > "_id": { > "news_author_fk": "Guillaume", > "news_topic_fk": "There are more than 20 JUGs in France" > }, > "labels": [{ > "id": NumberLong(5) > }] > } > > Of course at the loading, when the News seems not related to any Label > because the "labels" field is empty. > A workaround it to change the @JoinColumns from: > > @JoinColumns({@JoinColumn(name="news_topic_fk", referencedColumnName = > "newsid.title", nullable = false) , > @JoinColumn(name="news_author_fk", referencedColumnName = > "newsid.author", nullable = false)}) > private List<Label> labels; > > @JoinColumns({@JoinColumn(name="title", referencedColumnName = > "newsid.title", nullable = false) , > @JoinColumn(name="author", referencedColumnName = > "newsid.author", nullable = false)}) > private List<Label> labels; > > Note that the new value of each @JoinColumn's name is the same as > referenced property from the @Embedded entity. > > I see there are 2 fix possible for this issue: > - we can say in case of IN_ENTITY mode don't use @JoinColumns' name to > store the navigation property but the property from the referenced > column. > - at the loading, we can check also the documents created due to @JoinColumns > > Personally, I would tend to the first approach which is more natural > in terms of storage and more readable. > > What do you think ? > Let me know if you need more information. > > Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev