Duplicate data entries on one to many element collection

Hibernate ORM
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Hi. I have the following entity called Profile:

@Entity
//Getter and setter annotations from Lombok
@Getter 
@Setter
@ToString
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class Candidate {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    @JsonIgnore
    long ID;

    @Embedded
    @ElementCollection(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    List< @Valid WorkExperience> workHistory;

    @ElementCollection(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    Map<TransportMode, Integer> maxTravelTimes;`

// ...  hasCode, and equals methods
}

When I fetch the profile, I get duplicated entries for workHistory. So if workHistory cantains 2 elements I would get 4,6 or 8 depending on how many entries are stored maxTravelTimes. So if maxTravelTimes has 4 entries, I would get 4 duplicated entries in workHistory.

What am I doing wrong? I don’t know how to fix it other than manually remove the duplicates from the list after fetching

2

Okay, workHistory needed to be in a Set not List avoid to duplicate entries.

Leaving this post up, incase anyone else is having the same problem