Hibernate tries to insert data to a table that does not exist

Question

I have a database about movies and actors. I want to do is : I want to fetch actor data (like name, surname, country, date of birth) from the corresponding arrayLists and insert that data into my actor table. And i want to do the same thing to my movie table. Here is a part of my code :

Then i am getting these errors :

• Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.RollbackException: Error while committing the transaction

  -Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute statement

  -Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute statement

  -Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Table 'movies and tv series.actor_country' doesn't exist

The thing that i don't understand is why hibernate tries to insert data to a table that does not exist. I don't want a actor_country table. Can somebody help me please ?

I have created a no-argument constructor and initialize the arrayLists with some data.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, with your current design, you're stuck with an actor_country table. Defining a property as @ElementCollection of type List is going to create a child table. How else would you store multiple countries in a relational database? You can control the name of the table by using the @CollectionTable in conjunction with the @ElementCollection .

If you don't want to store multiple countries, you can switch it to @Basic with a type of String .