Hibernate complains for null @Id in @OneToOne even if it is not null

Question

I am trying to achieve @OneToOne association, using the same @Id between a Car and a Person . A Person is has an optional Car , but a Car has a required Person (hence I need a foreign key inside "cars" table pointing an existing Person ):

@Entity
@Table(name = "persons")
public class Person {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;

    @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "person")
    private Car car;

    /**
     * For hibernate
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    private Person() {
    }

    public Person(String name) {
        super();
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Car getCar() {
        return car;
    }

    public void setCar(Car car) {
        this.car = car;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

}

---

@Entity
@Table(name = "cars")
public class Car {
    @Id
    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;

    @MapsId
    @OneToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "name")
    @OnDelete(action = OnDeleteAction.CASCADE)
    private Person person;

    public Car() {
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Person getPerson() {
        return person;
    }

    public void setPerson(Person person) {
        this.person = person;
    }

}

public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, String> {

}

My test case:

@Autowired
private PersonRepository personRepository;

@Test
public void test() {
    Person mike = new Person("Mike");
    personRepository.save(mike); //Saved sucessfully

    Person alice = new Person("Alice");
    Car car = new Car();
    car.setPerson(alice);
    car.setName(alice.getName());
    alice.setCar(car);
    personRepository.save(alice); //error
}

Stacktrace:

org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaSystemException: attempted to assign id from null one-to-one property [com.project.entity.Car.person]; nested exception is org.hibernate.id.IdentifierGenerationException: attempted to assign id from null one-to-one property [com.project.entity.Car.person]

I followed this solution on how to have a shared Id. The schema in database looks to be fine, and works exactly as I want. If i delete a Car, nothing happens. If I delete a person who owns a Car , his Car will be deleted from database as well.

The question is simple. What do I do wrong?

In case it plays any role (I doubt it), this is my datasource properties:

spring.jpa.hibernate.dll-auto = create-drop
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/database?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
spring.datasource.platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect

Answer 1

(Disclaimer: It was not meant to be a Q&A)

The problem is in @MapsId annotation. Changing it to:

@MapsId("name") //Here
@OneToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "name")
@OnDelete(action = OnDeleteAction.CASCADE)
private Person person;

seems to fix the problem.