POST REST request including a foreign key OnToMany Mapping - rest

Question

i'm new to Springboot. I'm trying to implement a simple REST api using :
-Springboot, JPA & rest along with hibernate
I have a 2 tables database, Notebook that contains 1 to many notes
I already setup the 2 tables and relationships. I also created a NotebookRepository and NoteRepository to get basic CRUD operations via the springboot rest. The Database connection and relationships are functionning
but i don't know how to add a new note (it has a notebook_id foreign key which msut NOT be NULL) and everytime i tryto post something along these lines
{
"title:"abc",
"text":"whatever",
"notebook":{
"id":2
}
}
i get this error :
Caused by: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Column 'notebook_id' cannot be null
#Entity
#Table(name="notebook")
public class NoteBook {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column(name="id")
private int id;
#Column(name="name")
private String name;
#OneToMany(mappedBy="notebook", cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
List<Note> notes;
public NoteBook() {
}
public NoteBook(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public List<Note> getNotes() {
return notes;
}
public void setNotes(List<Note> notes) {
this.notes = notes;
}
public void addNote(Note note) {
if(notes == null) {
notes = new ArrayList<>();
}
note.setNotebook(this);
notes.add(note);
}
#Entity
#Table(name="note")
public class Note {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
#Column(name="id")
private int id;
#Column(name="title")
private String title;
#Column(name="text")
private String text;
#ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.DETACH, CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.REFRESH})
#JoinColumn(name="notebook_id")
private NoteBook notebook;
public Note() {
}
public Note(String title, String text) {
this.title = title;
this.text = text;
}
#RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "note", path = "notes")
public interface NoteRepository extends JpaRepository<Note, Integer>{
//No code...
}
#RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "notebook", path = "notebooks")
public interface NotebookRepository extends JpaRepository<NoteBook, Integer>{
}

Answer 1

The problem is that the class Note doesn't have a constructor with NoteBook parameter to pass the created NoteBook object to, so the solution is to add this constructor:
public Note(String title, String text, NoteBook noteBook) {
this.title = title;
this.text = text;
this.noteBook = noteBook;
}
and it's enough to send the JSON object as you do, but just be aware of case-sensitivity:
{ "title:"abc", "text":"whatever", "noteBook":{ "id":2 } }

Answer 2

I think you need to add referencedColumnName = "id" for JoinColumn annotation for notebook field in Note class.
Maybe you have problem with IDENTITY generation type. See this problem with null pointer