lennard :
I'm using spring boot and want to add a list of products to a page as a foreign key but how can I maintain the ArrayList order when I retrieve from the database? Should I have an intermediate table e.g. PageProductOrder
which maintains product primary key and order column?
@Entity
public class Page {
@OneToMany
@JoinColumn(name = "product_id")
private List<Product> products;
michalk :
You could do this by using @OrderColumn
- this will use a column in the entity for ordering :
@OneToMany
@JoinColumn(name = "product_id")
@OrderColumn(name = "product_index")
private List<Product> products;
The column product_index
in Product
entity will be used for maintaining order.