JPA dataIntegrityViolationException occurs for multiple parents - jpa

Question

I am working on simple spring security demo and want to put user and role info into db. Here is the simple structure of my entity.
#Entity
#Table(name = "users")
public class Users {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "user_id")
private Long userId;
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "users", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, orphanRemoval=true, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
private List<UserRoleMapping> userRoleMapping;
}
//
#Entity
#Table(name = "user_role_mapping")
public class UserRoleMapping {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "user_role_mapping_id")
private Long userRoleMappingId;
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Users users;
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private UserRole userRole;
}
//
#Entity
#Table(name = "users_role")
public class UserRole {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "role_id")
private Long roleId;
#Column(name = "role")
private String role;
#Column(name = "role_desc")
private String roleDesc;
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "userRole", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, orphanRemoval=true)
private List<UserRoleMapping> userRoleMapping;
}
In my use case, I have to make sure when the user is created then I have to insert subsequence userRoleMapping. And If the userRole is removed then the userRoleMapping must be deleted as well.
So I put CascadeType.ALL and orphanRemoval=true in users entity, and orphanRemoval=true in userRole entity.
However, when I run userRoleRepository.delete(userRole). I have dataIntegrityViolationException.
I did some researches on it and understand it is a kind of jpa constrains to make sure we delete the parents (users) as well.
May I ask if there are any workaround for my use case?
Thanks

Answer 1

Here is the solution to my use cases. Instead of using OneToMany in both entity, I should use ManyToMany relationship. And it is quite make sense as I don't care (for now) the mapping in java logic. Here is my code
public class Users {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "user_id")
private Long userId;
#ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = { CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.PERSIST })
#JoinTable
private Set<UserRole> userRole;
}
//
public class UserRole {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "role_id")
private Long roleId;
#Column(name = "role")
private String role;
#Column(name = "role_desc")
private String roleDesc;
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "userRole", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Set<Users> users;
}