Each @AttributeOverride for a component property is “complete”: any JPA or Hibernate annotation on the overridden property is ignored. This means the @Column annotations on the Address class are ignored—all BILLING_* columns are NULL able!(Bean Validation still recognizes the @NotNull annotation on the component property, though; Hibernate only overrides persistence annotations.)
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package org.jpwh.model.simple; import org.jpwh.model.Constants; import javax.persistence.AttributeOverride;
import javax.persistence.AttributeOverrides;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Embedded;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.math.BigDecimal; @Entity
@Table(name = "USERS")
public class User implements Serializable { @Id
@GeneratedValue(generator = Constants.ID_GENERATOR)
protected Long id; public Long getId() {
return id;
} protected String username; public User() {
} public String getUsername() {
return username;
} public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
} // The Address is @Embeddable, no annotation needed here...
protected Address homeAddress; public Address getHomeAddress() {
return homeAddress;
} public void setHomeAddress(Address homeAddress) {
this.homeAddress = homeAddress;
} @Embedded // Not necessary...
@AttributeOverrides({
@AttributeOverride(name = "street",
column = @Column(name = "BILLING_STREET")), // NULLable!
@AttributeOverride(name = "zipcode",
column = @Column(name = "BILLING_ZIPCODE", length = 5)),
@AttributeOverride(name = "city",
column = @Column(name = "BILLING_CITY"))
})
protected Address billingAddress; public Address getBillingAddress() {
return billingAddress;
} public void setBillingAddress(Address billingAddress) {
this.billingAddress = billingAddress;
} public BigDecimal calcShippingCosts(Address fromLocation) {
// Empty implementation of business method
return null;
} // ...
}