Spring Boot Persistence Best Practices: Optimize Java Persistence Performance in Spring Boot Applications

© Anghel Leonard 2020

A. LeonardSpring Boot Persistence Best Practiceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5626-8_2

2. Entities

Anghel Leonard¹ 

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Banesti, Romania

 

Item 13: How to Adopt a Fluent API Style in Entities

Consider the Author and Book entities, which are involved in a bidirectional lazy @OneToMany association , as shown in Figure 2-1.

Figure 2-1

The @OneToMany table relationship

Usually, you can create an Author with Books as follows (e.g., one author with two books):

Author author = new Author();

author.setName("Joana Nimar");

author.setAge(34);

author.setGenre("History");

Book book1 = new Book();

book1.setTitle("A History of Ancient Prague");

book1.setIsbn("001-JN"); ...