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A One-to-Many relationship refers to the relationship between two entities A and B in which one element of A may only be linked to many elements of B, but a member of B is linked to only one element of A.
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A one-to-many relationship between two entities is defined by using the
@OneToMany
annotation in Spring Data JPA.
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A One-to-One relationship refers to the relationship between two entities tables A and B in which only one element of A may only be linked to one element of B, and vice versa.
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A One-to-One relationship between two entities is defined by using the
@OneToOne
annotation in Spring Data JPA. @OneToMany(mappedBy = "library")private List books;
//...
}
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A Many-to-Many relationship refers to the relationship between two entities A and B in which one element of A may only be associated with many elements of B and vice versa.
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A Many-to-Many relationship between two entities is defined by using the
@ManyToMany
annotation in Spring Data JPA. public class Book {@Id
@GeneratedValue
private long id;
@Column(nullable=false)
private String title;
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name="library_id")
private Library library;
// standard constructor, getter, setter
}
public class Library {
//...
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A Many-To-One relationship represents a single-valued association where a collection of entities can be associated with the similar entity. Hence, in relational database any more than one row of an entity can refer to the similar rows of another entity.
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A Many-to-One relationship between two entities is defined by using the
@ManyToOne
annotation in Spring Data JPA.
- Spring MVC Test Configuration
Enable Spring in Tests with JUnit 5:
Enable Spring in Tests with JUnit JUnit 5 defines an extension interface through which classes can integrate with the JUnit test.
We can enable this extension by adding the @ExtendWith annotation to our test classes and specifying the extension class to load. To run the Spring test, we use SpringExtension.class.
We also need the @ContextConfiguration annotation to load the context configuration and bootstrap the context that our test will use.