Null values are inserted in the foreign key fields with Hibernate

Question

I have a Question Entity and Tag entity with getter, setter methods and a OneToMany relationship from question to tag and a OneToOne relationship from question to user

public class Question {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name="title")
    private String title;

    @Column(name="body")
    private String body;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    @Column(name="date_created")
    private Date date_created;

    @OneToOne(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name="user_id")
    private User user;

    @OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name="tag_id")
    private Tag tag;

    @Column(name="answer_count")
    private int answer_count;

    @Column(name="view_count")
    private int view_count;

    public Question() {

}

Tag entity

public class Tag {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name="name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name="username")
    private String username;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    @Column(name="date_created")
    private Date date_created;

    public Tag() {

}

When I try to insert a question using Postman with the following details:

{
    "title": "stefanyyyxx",
    "body": "stefandoyee44",
    "date_created": "2019-02-27",
    "user_id" : 1,
    "tag_id": 1,
    "answer_count": 0,
    "view_count": 0
}

QuestionRepository.java:

@Override
public void save(Question theQuestion) {

    // get the current hibernate session
    Session currentSession = entityManager.unwrap(Session.class);

    // save employee
    currentSession.saveOrUpdate(theQuestion);
}

Null values are being inserted for user_id and tag_id though I used JoinColumn().

MySQL:

Answer 1

As @Karol Dowbecki Suggested,

convert the JSON to DTO object and use that DTO to get the User, Tag Entities from their respective repositories.

Finally create the Question entity object and store it.

Question Entity

@Entity
@Table(name = "question")
public class Question {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "title")
    private String title;

    @Column(name = "body")
    private String body;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    @Column(name = "date_created")
    private Date dateCreated;

    @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name = "user_id")
    private User user;

    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name = "tag_id")
    private Set<Tag> tag;

    @Column(name = "answer_count")
    private int answerCount;

    @Column(name = "view_count")
    private int viewCount;

}

User Entity

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class User {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    private String name;

}

Tag Entity

@Entity
@Table(name = "tag")
public class Tag {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name = "username")
    private String username;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    @Column(name = "date_created")
    private Date dateCreated;

}

DTO Class

public class QuestionDTO {

    private Long id;

    private String title;

    private String body;

    private Date dateCreated;

    private Long user;

    private Long tag;

    private int answerCount;

    private int viewCount;
}

Test Class

@Service
public class TestService {

    @Autowired
    private QuestionRepository questionRepository;

    @Autowired
    private UserRepository userRepository;

    @Autowired
    private TagRepository tagRepository;

    public void addQuestion(QuestionDTO dto) {
        Tag tag = null;
        User user = null;
        Question question = null;

        Set<Tag> tags = null;

        tag = tagRepository.findById(dto.getTag());

        tags = new HashSet<>();
        tags.add(tag);

        user = userRepository.findById(dto.getUser());

        question = new Question();
        question.setTag(tags);
        question.setUser(user);
        question.setId(dto.getId());
        question.setBody(dto.getBody());
        question.setTitle(dto.getTitle());
        question.setViewCount(dto.getViewCount());
        question.setAnswerCount(dto.getAnswerCount());
        question.setDateCreated(dto.getDateCreated());

        questionRepository.save(question);

    }
}

NOTE : The relation between Question and Tag are in OneToMany you have to use Collection type.