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[Steve Ebersole]

Also, I have been thinking that there really ought to be different 
types of "integrators".  Not sure what we gain by forcing 
MetadataContributingIntegrator, ServiceContributingIntegrator, 
TypeContributingIntegrator, etc to extend Integrator


On Sat 18 Aug 2012 05:50:29 PM CDT, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> The general idea is good.  But not really getting the point/purpose of
> having both before and after hooks.
>
> On 08/17/2012 01:12 AM, Strong Liu wrote:
>> I'm thinking add the interface below, with it, modules like envers
>> can choose either before or after the metamodel get processed to hook
>> into its own extending mappings
>>
>>
>> public interface MetadataContributingIntegrator extends Integrator {
>>     /**
>>      * Allow the integrator to alter the {@link MetadataImplementor}
>> BEFORE {@link MetadataSources} get processed.
>>      * <p/>
>>      *
>>      * At this stage, metamode ( like {@link
>> org.hibernate.metamodel.spi.binding.EntityBinding} etc. ) is not
>> available yet.
>>      * This is a good time to add the custom sources into
>> {@MetadataSources} and get it processed by Hibernate Metamodel.
>>      *
>>      * @param metadata The Metamodel which is going to be completed
>> by processing MetadataSources.
>>      * @param source  Meta data sources to be processed.
>>      */
>>     public void beforeMetadataProcessing(MetadataImplementor
>> metadata, MetadataSources source);
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Allow the itnegrator to alter the {@link MetadataImplementor}
>> AFTER @{@link MetadataSources} get processed.
>>      * <p/>
>>      *
>>      * At this stage, metamode ( like {@link
>> org.hibernate.metamodel.spi.binding.EntityBinding} etc. ) is bindded.
>>      * So, it depends on the integrator to manually create metamodel
>> and add it to {@link MetadataImplementor} or modifiy the
>>      * existing one.
>>      *
>>      * @param metadata
>>      * @param source
>>      */
>>     public void afterMetadataProcessing(MetadataImplementor metadata,
>> MetadataSources source);
>> }
>>
>> downside is, envers with old metamodel calls
>> Configuration.buildMappings() again during the integration phase, so,
>> its created hbm xml can be processed (again) before SF create, but
>> with new metamodel, it is hard to do that I think ( or too time
>> consuming )
>>
>> and to create envers own metamodel ( hbm ) it needs to know the
>> hibernate type of entity property, which can be easily get from
>> Entitybinding but hard / duplicated to resolve from source by envers
>> itself, so it seems we should choose "afterMetadataProcessing"
>>
>> but envers' hbm creation involves lots of code and pretty complicated
>> ( to me :) it's better to reuse those code and choose
>> "beforemetadataProcessing" and let new metamodel to take care of that.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 31 Jan 2012, at 10:55 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why is the "annotation indexing" discussion part of the metamodel?
>>> Why not? We are using Jandex in the new metamodel which is a
>>> annotation index/repository
>>>
>>>> I initially understood that a replacement of commons-annotations was
>>>> being developed, which would be nice for Search too as Search does not
>>>> and should not depend on Hibernate ORM.
>>> as Strong already said, there is no replacement module for
>>> commons-annotations. There is no
>>> need for it.
>>>
>>> And yes, Search should imo also switch to Jandex, however, it can
>>> initially just create its own index.
>>> Of course it might be nice to be able to use a Jandex index passed
>>> to it via the integrator spi. Different story though.
>>>
>>> --Hardy
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>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Strong Liu <stliu at hibernate.org>
>> http://about.me/stliu/bio
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