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How to implement a one-to-many relationship?
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In Java, a one-to-many relationship is usually implemented using collections in the class that represents the "one" object, and references to objects that represent the "many". For example, if we have a class Author and a class Book, where one author can have many books, then in the Author class there will be a field of type List<Book>.
Example:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
class Book {
private String title;
public Book(String title) {
this.title = title;
}
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}
}
class Author {
private String name;
private List<Book> books = new ArrayList<>();
public Author(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public void addBook(Book book) {
books.add(book);
}
public List<Book> getBooks() {
return books;
}
}
In the context of ORM (for example, JPA/Hibernate), a one-to-many relationship is implemented using @OneToMany and @ManyToOne annotations to properly map the relationships in the database.