I have entities User and GrantedRole that have a bidirectional one-to-many relation.
When I try to add a GrantedRole to the Set in User, there is no exception thrown, but when I debug the variables for the User and GrantedRole object have a description that reads
com.sun.jdi.InvocationException occurred invoking method.
The different fields for the variables can be read while debugging, but when I select the roles field in User or the user field in GrantedRole I get the same description as above. When I go into the Set of GrantedRole in user, I eventually find the following description:
Detail formatter error: An exception occurred: java.lang.StackOverflowError
My code:
public class User {
private Set<GrantedRole> roles = new HashSet<GrantedRole>();
public User() {
super();
}
public User(String name, String password) {
this.name = name;
this.password = password;
}
@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "user")
public Set<GrantedRole> getRoles() {
return roles;
}
public void setRoles(Set<GrantedRole> roles) {
this.roles = roles;
}
// equals and hashCode are based on username
// toString is based on all fields
}
public class GrantedRole {
private user user;
public GrantedRole() {
super();
}
public GrantedRole(User user, Role role, Organization organization) {
this.user = user;
this.role = role;
this.organization = organization;
}
@ManyToOne
@NotNull
public User getUser() {
return user;
}
public void setUser(User user) {
this.user = user;
}
// equals and hashCode are based on all fields
// toString was based on all fields, I've changed it to not include User.
}
public class Test {
public void testStuff() {
User user = new User("name");
GrantedRole role = new GrantedRole(user, "role"); //this sets the user field
user.getRoles().add(role); //doesn't throw Exception, but debugging shows InvocationTargetException and StackOverflowException
System.out.println(user.getRoles()); //throws StackOverflowException, as I would expect
}
}
It was my understanding that I should be able to set up a bidirectional relation in this way. I read multiple tutorials, like this one, and I don´t see what I am doing differently to cause the .add(role) to go wrong.
I left out some trivial code, if it is needed I will gladly provide it. I haven't made code to ensure that a GrantedRole with a reference to a User is referenced by that user in return, but I think that is not relevant for the problem I'm having.
