JPA One-To-Many Parent-Child Mapping Problem

Question

I am trying to map an existing legacy Oracle schema that involves a base class table and two subclass tables that are related by a one-to-many relationship which is of a parent-child nature.
The following exception is generated. Can anybody provide a suggestion to fix the problem?
Exception [EclipseLink-45] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.0.0.v20091127-r5931): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DescriptorException
Exception Description: Missing mapping for field [BASE_OBJECT.SAMPLE_ID].
Descriptor: RelationalDescriptor(domain.example.entity.Sample --> [DatabaseTable(BASE_OBJECT), DatabaseTable(SAMPLE)])
The schema is as follows:
CREATE TABLE BASE_OBJECT(
"BASE_OBJECT_ID" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
"NAME" VARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL,
"DESCRIPTION" CLOB NOT NULL,
"BASE_OBJECT_KIND" NUMBER(5,0) NOT NULL );
CREATE TABLE SAMPLE(
"SAMPLE_ID" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
"SAMPLE_TEXT" VARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL )
CREATE TABLE SAMPLE_ITEM(
"SAMPLE_ITEM_ID" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
"SAMPLE_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL,
"QUANTITY" INTEGER NOT NULL )
The entities are related as follows:
SAMPLE.SAMPLE_ID -> BASE_OBJECT.BASE_OBJECT_ID - The PKs that are used to join the sample to the base class
SAMPLE_ITEM.SAMPLE_ITEM_ID -> BASE_OBJECT.BASE_OBJECT_ID - The PKs that are used to join the sample item to the base class
SAMPLE_ITEM.SAMPLE_ID -> SAMPLE.SAMPLE_ID - The FK that is used to join the sample item to the sample class as a child of the parent.
SAMPLE is one to many SAMPLE_ITEM
The entity classes are as follows:
@Entity
@Table( name = "BASE_OBJECT" )
@Inheritance( strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED )
@DiscriminatorColumn( name = "BASE_KIND", discriminatorType = DiscriminatorType.INTEGER )
@DiscriminatorValue( "1" )
public class BaseObject
extends SoaEntity
@Id
@GeneratedValue( strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "BaseObjectIdSeqGen" )
@SequenceGenerator( name = "BaseObjectIdSeqGen", sequenceName = "BASE_OBJECT_PK_SEQ", allocationSize = 1 )
@Column( name = "BASE_ID" )
private long baseObjectId = 0;
@Entity
@Table( name = "SAMPLE" )
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn( name = "SAMPLE_ID" )
@AttributeOverride(name="baseObjectId", column=@Column(name="SAMPLE_ID"))
@DiscriminatorValue( "2" )
public class Sample
extends BaseObject
@OneToMany( cascade = CascadeType.ALL )
@JoinColumn(name="SAMPLE_ID",referencedColumnName="SAMPLE_ID")
private List<SampleItem> sampleItem = new LinkedList<SampleItem>();
@Entity
@Table( name = "SAMPLE_ITEM" )
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn( name = "SAMPLE_ITEM_ID" )
@AttributeOverride(name="baseObjectId", column=@Column(name="SAMPLE_ITEM_ID"))
@DiscriminatorValue( "3" )
public class SampleItem
extends BaseObject
@Basic( optional = false )
@Column( name = "SAMPLE_ID" )
private long sampleId = 0;
Edited by: Chris-R on Mar 2, 2010 4:45 PM

Answer 1

Thanks for the thoroughness. There was a mistake in moving the code over for the forum. The field names are correct throughout the original source code.
BASE_OBJECT_ID is used throughout.
I suspect the problem lies in the one-to-many sampleItem(s) relationship that is based upon the subclassed item class. (The relationship is actually "sampleItems" in the real code and somehow got changed in the move over.)
The problem may lie in the mapping of the attribute override in the child class to the referencing of the item class from the parent side of the relationship in the Sample class.
I further suspect this may be specific to Eclipselink based upon other postings I've seen on the web that have similar problems...
Any thoughts?
Edited by: Chris-R on Mar 3, 2010 9:56 AM