"HibernateException: Could not locate table which owns column [...] referenced in order-by mapping" in EAP 6

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Issue

  • Add @OrderBy to an association collection referencing a column of a parent entity type in a JOINED inheritance hierarchy
@Entity
@Table(name = "Joined_Parent")
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
public class JoinedParent
{
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    @Column(name = "id")
    private Integer id;

    @ManyToOne(cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
    @JoinColumn(name = "other_entity_id", nullable = false)
    private OtherEntity otherEntity;
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "Joined_Child")
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name = "id")
public class JoinedChild extends JoinedParent
{
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "Other_Entity")
public class OtherEntity
{
    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "otherEntity", orphanRemoval = true)
    @OrderBy("id ASC") // <-- reference to JoinedParent.id causes the error
    private List<JoinedParent> items = new ArrayList<JoinedParent>();
}
  • A HibernateException is raised while creating the entity manager factory
javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: CaseManagement] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:924)
    ...
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not locate table which owns column [id] referenced in order-by mapping
    at org.hibernate.persister.entity.JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.determineTableNumberForColumn(JoinedSubclassEntityPersister.java:854)
    at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.getTableAliasForColumn(AbstractEntityPersister.java:4991)
    at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister$StandardOrderByAliasResolver.resolveTableAlias(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:1941)
    at org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr.OrderByFragmentTranslator$StandardOrderByTranslationImpl.injectAliases(OrderByFragmentTranslator.java:106)
    at org.hibernate.persister.collection.AbstractCollectionPersister.getSQLOrderByString(AbstractCollectionPersister.java:747)
    ...

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6
  • Hibernate 4

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