Hibernate рекурсивная связь "многие ко многим" с одной и той же сущностью

на самом деле это очень просто и может быть достигнуто, следуя, скажем, у вас есть следующая сущность

public class Human {
    int id;
    short age;
    String name;
    List<Human> relatives;



    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
    public short getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    public void setAge(short age) {
        this.age = age;
    }
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public List<Human> getRelatives() {
        return relatives;
    }
    public void setRelatives(List<Human> relatives) {
        this.relatives = relatives;
    }

    public void addRelative(Human relative){
        if(relatives == null)
            relatives = new ArrayList<Human>();
        relatives.add(relative);
    }




}

HBM для того же:

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="org.know.july31.hb.Human" table="Human">
        <id name="id" type="java.lang.Integer">
            <column name="H_ID" />
            <generator class="increment" />
        </id>
        <property name="age" type="short">
            <column name="age" />
        </property>
        <property name="name" type="string">
            <column name="NAME" length="200"/>
        </property>
        <list name="relatives" table="relatives" cascade="all">
         <key column="H_ID"/>
         <index column="U_ID"/>
         <many-to-many class="org.know.july31.hb.Human" column="relation"/>
      </list>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

и тестовый случай

import org.junit.Test;
import org.know.common.HBUtil;
import org.know.july31.hb.Human;

public class SimpleTest {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        Human h1 = new Human();
        short s = 23;
        h1.setAge(s);
        h1.setName("Ratnesh Kumar singh");
        Human h2 = new Human();
        h2.setAge(s);
        h2.setName("Praveen Kumar singh");
        h1.addRelative(h2);
        Human h3 = new Human();
        h3.setAge(s);
        h3.setName("Sumit Kumar singh");
        h2.addRelative(h3);
        Human dk = new Human();
        dk.setAge(s);
        dk.setName("D Kumar singh");
        h3.addRelative(dk);
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().save(h1);
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().commit();
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
        h1 = (Human)HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().load(Human.class, 1);
        System.out.println(h1.getRelatives().get(0).getName());

        HBUtil.shutdown();
    }

}

принятый ответ кажется слишком сложным с @JoinTable Примечание. Немного более простая реализация требует только mappedBy. Используя mappedBy указывает на владение Entity, или свойство, которое, вероятно, должно быть referencesTo так как это будет считаться "друзьями". А ManyToMany отношения могут создать очень сложный график. Используя mappedBy делает код так:

@Entity
public class Recursion {
    @Id @GeneratedValue
    private Integer id;
    // what entities does this entity reference?
    @ManyToMany
    private Set<Recursion> referencesTo;
    // what entities is this entity referenced from?
    @ManyToMany(mappedBy="referencesTo")
    private Set<Recursion> referencesFrom;
    public Recursion init() {
        referencesTo = new HashSet<>();
        return this;
    }
    // getters, setters
}

и чтобы использовать его, вам нужно учитывать, что собственность является referencesTo. Вы только необходимо поместить отношения в это свойство, чтобы на них можно было ссылаться. Когда вы читаете Entity обратно, предполагая, что вы делаете fetch join, JPA создаст коллекции для результата. При удалении сущности JPA удалит все ссылки на нее.

tx.begin();
Recursion r0 = new Recursion().init();
Recursion r1 = new Recursion().init();
Recursion r2 = new Recursion().init();
r0.getReferencesTo().add(r1);
r1.getReferencesTo().add(r2);
em.persist(r0);
em.persist(r1);
em.persist(r2);

tx.commit();
// required so that existing entities with null referencesFrom will be removed from cache.
em.clear();
for ( int i=1; i <= 3; ++i ) {
    Recursion r = em.createQuery("select distinct r from Recursion r left join fetch r.referencesTo left join fetch r.referencesFrom where id = :id", Recursion.class).setParameter("id",  i).getSingleResult();
    System.out.println(r + " To=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesTo().toArray()) + " From=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesFrom().toArray()) );
}
tx.begin();
em.createQuery("delete from Recursion where id = 2").executeUpdate();
tx.commit();
// required so that existing entities with referencesTo will be removed from cache.
em.clear();
Recursion r = em.createQuery("select distinct r from Recursion r left join fetch r.referencesTo left join fetch r.referencesFrom where id = :id", Recursion.class).setParameter("id",  1).getSingleResult();
System.out.println(r + " To=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesTo().toArray()) + " From=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesFrom().toArray()) );

который дает следующий вывод журнала (всегда проверяйте сгенерированные операторы SQL):

Hibernate: create table Recursion (id integer not null, primary key (id))
Hibernate: create table Recursion_Recursion (referencesFrom_id integer not null, referencesTo_id integer not null, primary key (referencesFrom_id, referencesTo_id))
Hibernate: create sequence hibernate_sequence start with 1 increment by 1
Hibernate: alter table Recursion_Recursion add constraint FKsi0wfuwfs0bl19jjpofw4n8pt foreign key (referencesTo_id) references Recursion
Hibernate: alter table Recursion_Recursion add constraint FKarrkuyh2v1j5qnlui2vbpl7tk foreign key (referencesFrom_id) references Recursion
Hibernate: call next value for hibernate_sequence
Hibernate: call next value for hibernate_sequence
Hibernate: call next value for hibernate_sequence
Hibernate: insert into Recursion (id) values (?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion (id) values (?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion (id) values (?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion_Recursion (referencesFrom_id, referencesTo_id) values (?, ?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion_Recursion (referencesFrom_id, referencesTo_id) values (?, ?)
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@7bdf6bb7 To=[model.Recursion@1bc53649] From=[]
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@1bc53649 To=[model.Recursion@42deb43a] From=[model.Recursion@7bdf6bb7]
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@42deb43a To=[] From=[model.Recursion@1bc53649]
Hibernate: delete from Recursion_Recursion where (referencesTo_id) in (select id from Recursion where id=2)
Hibernate: delete from Recursion_Recursion where (referencesFrom_id) in (select id from Recursion where id=2)
Hibernate: delete from Recursion where id=2
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@6b739528 To=[] From=[]