DATAJDBC-374 - Add onEmpty attribute to Embedded annotation.
The onEmpty attribute allows to define if an embedded entity should be set to null or a default instance if all properties backing the entity are actually null.
@Embedded(onEmpty = USE_NULL)
EmbeddedEntity embeddedEntity;
Original pull request: #154.
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@@ -288,14 +288,19 @@ Embedded entities are used to have value objects in your java data model, even i
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In the following example you see, that `MyEntity` is mapped with the `@Embedded` annotation.
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The consequence of this is, that in the database a table `my_entity` with the two columns `id` and `name` (from the `EmbeddedEntity` class) is expected.
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However, if the `name` column is actually `null` within the result set, the entire property `embeddedEntity` will be set to null according to the `onEmpty` of `@Embedded`, which ``null``s objects when all nested properties are `null`. +
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Opposite to this behavior `USE_EMPTY` tries to create a new instance using either a default constructor or one that accepts nullable parameter values from the result set.
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.Sample Code of embedding objects
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[source, java]
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public class MyEntity {
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@Id
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Integer id;
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@Embedded
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@Embedded(onEmpty = USE_NULL) <1>
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EmbeddedEntity embeddedEntity;
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}
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@@ -303,9 +308,10 @@ public class EmbeddedEntity {
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String name;
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}
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<1> ``Null``s `embeddedEntity` if `name` in `null`. Use `USE_EMPTY` to instanciate `embeddedEntity` with a potential `null` value for the `name` property.
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====
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If you need a value object multiple times in an entity, this can be achieved with the optional `value` element of the `@Embedded` annotation.
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If you need a value object multiple times in an entity, this can be achieved with the optional `prefix` element of the `@Embedded` annotation.
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This element represents a prefix and is prepend for each column name in the embedded object.
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[[jdbc.entity-persistence.state-detection-strategies]]
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