JPA/Hibernate One to Many Bidirectional Mapping Example

There are two types of one-to-many associations –

• Unidirectional → In this type of association, only the source entity has a relationship field that refers to the target entity. We can navigate this type of association from one side.
• Bidirectional → In this type of association, each entity (i.e. source and target) has a relationship field that refers to each other. We can navigate this type of association from both sides.

package com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Teacher;

import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Course.Course;

import javax.persistence.*;
import java.util.List;

@Entity
public class Teacher {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    int id;
    String name;
    String DepartName;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "teacher",cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    List<Course> courseList;

    public List<Course> getCourseList() {
        return courseList;
    }

    public void setCourseList(List<Course> courseList) {
        this.courseList = courseList;
    }

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

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

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

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

    public String getDepartName() {
        return DepartName;
    }

    public void setDepartName(String departName) {
        DepartName = departName;
    }
}

Course Entity Class

package com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Course;

import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Teacher.Teacher;

import javax.persistence.*;

@Entity
public class Course {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    int id;
    String courseName;

    @ManyToOne
    Teacher teacher;


    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

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

    public String getCourseName() {
        return courseName;
    }

    public void setCourseName(String courseName) {
        this.courseName = courseName;
    }

    public Teacher getTeacher() {
        return teacher;
    }

    public void setTeacher(Teacher teacher) {
        this.teacher = teacher;
    }
}

Course Repository 

package com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Course;

import org.hibernate.cfg.JPAIndexHolder;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

@Repository
public interface CourseRespository extends JpaRepository<Course,Integer> {
}

Teacher Repository

package com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Teacher;

import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

@Repository
public interface TeacherRespository extends JpaRepository<Teacher,Integer> {
}

application.properties

spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.datasource.driverClassName=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/demo
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=

ControllerST Conrtorller class

package com.onetomany.demoonetomany.API;

import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Course.Course;
import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Course.CourseRespository;
import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Teacher.Teacher;
import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Teacher.TeacherRespository;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

@RestController
public class ControllerST {

    @Autowired
    CourseRespository courseRespository;

    @Autowired
    TeacherRespository teacherRespository;

    @PostMapping("/add/teacher")
    public void addrecord(Teacher teacher){
        List<Course> courseList=new ArrayList<>();

        Course course=new Course();
        course.setCourseName("Hacking Course");
        course.setTeacher(teacher);
        courseList.add(course);
        teacher.setName("Waseem Haider Hacker");
        teacher.setDepartName("IT Department");
        teacher.setCourseList(courseList);
        teacherRespository.save(teacher);
    }

    @GetMapping("/get/list")
    public List<Teacher> getlistadd(){
        return teacherRespository.findAll();
    }



}

Main Class 

package com.onetomany.demoonetomany;

import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Course.Course;
import com.onetomany.demoonetomany.Teacher.Teacher;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

@SpringBootApplication
public class DemoonetomanyApplication {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      SpringApplication.run(DemoonetomanyApplication.class, args);



   }

}

Dependence of Gradle

implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
runtimeOnly 'mysql:mysql-connector-java'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'