Re: JPA and Foreign key constraint

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:08:08 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<e7228859-74da-4305-942e-873c18c9cede@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
carmelo wrote:

I'm developing a Swing CRUD application with a master/details form,
using Toplink JPA, MySQL and Netbeans 6.7.1. Master/details tables
are:

- master(code_auto_incr, master_code)


You don't say but we assume that these tables are InnoDB type and that
'master'.'master_code' has a UNIQUE constraint. If not, fix that.

- details(code_auto_incr, description, master_code)

There is a foreign key constraint which relates details.master_code
to master.master_code

The problem is that I get an exception on insert:

javax.persistence.RollbackException: Exception [TOPLINK-4002] (Oracle
TopLink Essentials - 2.0.1 (Build b09d-fcs (12/06/2007))):
oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.DatabaseException

Internal Exception:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLIntegrityConstraintViolationExceptio=

n:

Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails
(`my_database/details`, CONSTRAINT `FK_details` FOREIGN KEY
(`master_code `) REFERENCES `master` (`master_code `))

Error Code: 1452

Call: INSERT INTO my_database.details(code_auto_incr, description,
master_code) VALUES (?, ?, ?)
        bind => [1, 1, 0]

Query: InsertObjectQuery(master.Details[code=null])

How can I do? Please help me.

Thank you very much in advance for your help


Since you only give some of the relevant information, we can only give
at best some of the answer.

You are attempting to insert a record into the 'details' table with a
'master_code'.that does not exist in the 'master' table.

How in the world did you come to attempt that?

--
Lew

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