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Navigation methods
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
org.jooq.TableRecord and org.jooq.UpdatableRecord contain foreign key navigation methods. These navigation methods allow for "navigating" inbound or outbound foreign key references by executing an appropriate query. An example is given here:
CREATE TABLE book ( AUTHOR_ID NUMBER(7) NOT NULL, -- [...] FOREIGN KEY (AUTHOR_ID) REFERENCES author(ID) )
BookRecord book = create.fetch(BOOK, BOOK.ID.eq(5)); // Find the author of a book (static imported from Keys) AuthorRecord author = book.fetchParent(FK_BOOK_AUTHOR); // Find other books by that author Result<BookRecord> books = author.fetchChildren(FK_BOOK_AUTHOR);
Note that, unlike in Hibernate, jOOQ's navigation methods will always lazy-fetch relevant records, without caching any results. In other words, every time you run such a fetch method, a new query will be issued.
These fetch methods only work on "attached" records. See the manual's section about serializability for some more insight on "attached" objects.
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