Hibernate - Foreign keys instead of Entities
foreign-keys, hibernate, java, mapping
Solution
Yes, you can do that. You just need to make it clear for hibernate which one is the mapping that it's supposed to maintain, like so:
@Column(name="message_key", updatable=false, insertable=false)
private Long message_fk;
Problem
Currently, Hibernate allows me to load objects defined by *-to-one relationships directly with ``` entity1.getEntity2() ``` Is it possible to get the foreign key instead of the object? The current approach which I see is having addint to my mapping: ``` @JoinColumn(name="message_key") @ManyToOne(targetEntity=Message.class,fetch=FetchType.LAZY) private Message message; //these lines currently exist @Column(name="message_key") private Long message_fk; //the idea is to add those 2 lines ``` Is there a better approach to get the foreign key, or is this the only one?