I have an abstract MappedSuperClass, Participant, which is extended by three kinds of 'Participant'. Each one then uses its own kind of 'Project', also an abstract MappedSuperClass. However, I want the base class to know about Projects so I can write generic code to interact with Participants. How do I specify this using Hibernate annotations? and how will I override it in the ExtendedParticipant and ExtendedProject classes?
Each Participant type, and each Project type, have their own database tables with existing data and ids (not unique across tables) that I cannot change.
The following code gives me the IDE error "Many to one attribute should not be 'Mapped Superclass'".
@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class Participant implements Persistable {
...
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "project_id")
public Project getProject() {
return project;
}
public void setProject(Project project) {
this.project = project;
}
...
}
and the Project class is much the same with the same problem:
@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class Project implements Persistable {
...
@OneToMany
public List<Participant> getParticipants() {
return participants;
}
public void setProject(List<Participant> participants) {
this.participants = participants;
}
...
}