@Embedded and @Embeddable JPA Example

This post demonstrates the usage of @Embedded And @Embeddable JPA annotations with an example.

@Embeddable annotation - JPA provides the @Embeddable annotation to declare that a class will be embedded by other entities.

@Embedded annotation - The JPA annotation @Embedded is used to embed a type into another entity.

Most often, embeddable types are used to group multiple basic type mappings and reuse them across several entities.

@Embedded and @Embeddable - JPA Annotation

1. Creating an Embeddable Class using @Embeddable

Let's create Address and Name classes as Embeddable Class. The advantage of using embedded objects is that they are reusable and you can map two entities to the same database table.

Address.java

package net.javaguides.hibernate.entity;

import javax.persistence.Embeddable;

@Embeddable
public class Address {
    private String addressLine1;

    private String addressLine2;

    private String city;

    private String state;

    private String country;

    private String zipCode;

    public Address() {

    }

    public Address(String addressLine1, String addressLine2, String city, String state, String country,
        String zipCode) {
        this.addressLine1 = addressLine1;
        this.addressLine2 = addressLine2;
        this.city = city;
        this.state = state;
        this.country = country;
        this.zipCode = zipCode;
    }

    public String getAddressLine1() {
        return addressLine1;
    }

    public void setAddressLine1(String addressLine1) {
        this.addressLine1 = addressLine1;
    }

    public String getAddressLine2() {
        return addressLine2;
    }

    public void setAddressLine2(String addressLine2) {
        this.addressLine2 = addressLine2;
    }

    public String getCity() {
        return city;
    }

    public void setCity(String city) {
        this.city = city;
    }

    public String getState() {
        return state;
    }

    public void setState(String state) {
        this.state = state;
    }

    public String getCountry() {
        return country;
    }

    public void setCountry(String country) {
        this.country = country;
    }

    public String getZipCode() {
        return zipCode;
    }

    public void setZipCode(String zipCode) {
        this.zipCode = zipCode;
    }
}

Name.java

package net.javaguides.hibernate.entity;

import javax.persistence.Embeddable;

@Embeddable
public class Name {
    private String firstName;

    private String middleName;

    private String lastName;

    public Name() {

    }

    public Name(String firstName, String middleName, String lastName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.middleName = middleName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }

    public String getMiddleName() {
        return middleName;
    }

    public void setMiddleName(String middleName) {
        this.middleName = middleName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return lastName;
    }

    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
}

2. Embedding an Embeddable object with @Embedded

We can simply embed an embeddable class using the @Embedded annotation. This class will be embedded in the same database table as the source. We can optionally override the attributes of the embedded class using the @AttributeOverrides and @AttributeOverride annotation. Let's create User class and embed Address and Name classes into it using the @Embedded annotation:
package net.javaguides.hibernate.entity;

import javax.persistence.*;

/**
 * Created by ramesh
 */
@Entity
@Table(name = "users")
public class User {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Embedded
    private Name name;

    private String email;

    @Embedded
    @AttributeOverrides(value = {
        @AttributeOverride(name = "addressLine1", column = @Column(name = "house_number")),
        @AttributeOverride(name = "addressLine2", column = @Column(name = "street"))
    })
    private Address address;

    public User() {

    }

    public User(Name name, String email, Address address) {
        this.name = name;
        this.email = email;
        this.address = address;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public Name getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(Name name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public Address getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    public void setAddress(Address address) {
        this.address = address;
    }
}

References

https://javaee.github.io/javaee-spec/javadocs/javax/persistence/Embedded.html

https://javaee.github.io/javaee-spec/javadocs/javax/persistence/Embeddable.html


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