org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.Set [duplicate]

Question

Although this question asked many times and I have already used all the suggestion but still I am getting this error.

The User.java is

@Entity
@Table(name = "USER")
public class User implements UserDetails, Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 2L;

    @Id
    @Column(name = "USER_ID")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private long id;
    @Column(name = "USERNAME")
    private String username;
    @Column(name = "PASSWORD")
    private String password;
    @Column(name = "NAME")
    private String name;
    @Column(name = "EMAIL")
    private String email;
    @Column(name = "LOCKED")
    private boolean locked;
    @OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    @ElementCollection(targetClass=Role.class)
    @Column(name = "ROLE_ID")
    private Set<Role> roles;

    @Override
    public GrantedAuthority[] getAuthorities() {
        List<GrantedAuthorityImpl> list = new ArrayList<GrantedAuthorityImpl>(0);
        for (Role role : roles) {
            list.add(new GrantedAuthorityImpl(role.getRole()));
        }
        return (GrantedAuthority[]) list.toArray(new GrantedAuthority[list.size()]);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isAccountNonExpired() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isAccountNonLocked() {
        return !isLocked();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isCredentialsNonExpired() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isEnabled() {
        return true;
    }

    public long getId() {
        return id;
    }

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

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

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

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public boolean isLocked() {
        return locked;
    }

    public void setLocked(boolean locked) {
        this.locked = locked;
    }

    @Override
    public String getUsername() {
        return username;
    }

    public void setUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
    }

    @Override
    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    public void setRoles(Set<Role> roles) {
        this.roles = roles;
    }

    public Set<Role> getRoles() {
        return roles;
    }
}

And the Role.java is

@Entity
@Table(name="ROLE")
public class Role implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name="ROLE_ID")
    private long id;
    @Column(name="USERNAME")
    private String username;
    @Column(name="ROLE")
    private String role;


    public long getId() {
        return id;
    }

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

    public String getUsername() {
        return username;
    }

    public void setUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
    }

    public String getRole() {
        return role;
    }

    public void setRole(String role) {
        this.role = role;
    }
}

This is my first attempt in hibernate annotation with JPA. So any suggestions will be very helpful.

For hibernate the pom.xml's dependencies are:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.4-Final</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.4-Final</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.4-Final</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.0.GA</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.4-Final</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

I have no clue about the fault.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I got the same problem with @ManyToOne column. It was solved... in stupid way. I had all other annotations for public getter methods, because they were overridden from parent class. But last field was annotated for private variable like in all other classes in my project. So I got the same MappingException without the reason.

Solution: I placed all annotations at public getter methods. I suppose, Hibernate can't handle cases, when annotations for private fields and public getters are mixed in one class.

Answer 2

Adding the @ElementCollection to the List field solved this issue:

@Column
@ElementCollection(targetClass=Integer.class)
private List<Integer> countries;

Answer 3

My guess is you are using a Set<Role> in the User class annotated with @OneToMany. Which means one User has many Roles. But on the same field you use the @Column annotation which makes no sense. One-to-many relationships are managed using a separate join table or a join column on the many side, which in this case would be the Role class. Using @JoinColumn instead of @Column would probably fix the issue, but it seems semantically wrong. I guess the relationship between role and user should be many-to-many.