com.jadeworld.jade.persistence
Annotation Type ManyToMany

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value={FIELD,METHOD})
public @interface ManyToMany

Indicates a many-to-many relationship. It must be specified for a property annotated with @DbProperty that is a reference to a class which inherits from com.jadeworld.jade.rootschema.Collection and the inverse property is also a reference to a class which inherits from com.jadeworld.jade.rootschema.Collection.

Author:

JADE Development Centre, Jade Software Corporation Ltd.

Optional Element Summary

java.lang.String	constraint Optional.
boolean	inverseNotRequired Optional.
java.lang.String[]	inverses Optional.
ReferenceRelationshipType	relationshipType relationshipType sets the type of relationship for the property.
boolean	transientToPersistentAllowed Optional,.
ReferenceUpdateMode	updateMode updateMode determines what is automatically done by JADE and what is done by user logic.

relationshipType

public abstract ReferenceRelationshipType relationshipType

relationshipType sets the type of relationship for the property. A peer-to-peer (PEER) relationship is an equivalent relationship between two objects. A parent-child relationship is a relationship in which the child object belongs to or is subsidiary to the parent object. When a parent object is deleted, any child objects are automatically deleted. The relationship is between instances of two classes. A value of PARENT sets this property as the parent and the inverse property as the child. A value of CHILD sets this property as the child and the inverse property as the parent.

Default:

PEER

updateMode

public abstract ReferenceUpdateMode updateMode

updateMode determines what is automatically done by JADE and what is done by user logic. The MANUAL option specifies that the property is maintained by your Java logic. The AUTOMATIC option means the property is maintained by JADE whenever the property at the other end of the relationship (the inverse) is updated. Automatic references cannot be updated in user logic. The MAN_AUTO option specifies that either end of the relationship can be updated in user logic. The other side of the relationship is automatically maintained by JADE. The DEFAULT option means that a peer-to-peer relationship is MAN_AUTO, A parent relationship is AUTOMATIC and a child relationship is MANUAL.

Default:

DEFAULT

transientToPersistentAllowed

public abstract boolean transientToPersistentAllowed

Optional,. Set to true to allow transient instances to reference a persistent instance. In this case, no inverses are updated.

Default:

false

inverseNotRequired

public abstract boolean inverseNotRequired

Optional. Set to true to specify that no exception is raised when no inverse is set during automatic maintenance because the type of the object is not compatible with any of the inverse references or when no inverse is set during automatic maintenance because the constraint fails.

Default:

false

constraint

public abstract java.lang.String constraint

Optional. The name of a condition method that applies as a constraint. It applies only if the updateMode is AUTOMATIC. When the manual side of an inverse reference is set, the property on the automatic side of the reference is set only when this constraint is satisfied.

Default:

""

inverses

public abstract java.lang.String[] inverses

Optional. The Java name of the inverse property (may be more than one).

Default:

{}