[hibernate-dev] Adding support for Java 8's Optional to ORM

[Sanne Grinovero]

We'd also love to support some features (especially the new user types
such as Date/Time) in Hibernate Search.

I don't think we should require Java8 for all users though, so I'd
like this to be an independent module.. troublesome with Maven though,
so this wasn't done yet.

--Sanne

On 28 July 2014 07:36, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Java 8 introduced a new type Optional which may be used to represent
> objects which may be set or not set:
>
>     private Optional<String> name;
>
> Hibernate Validator will allow to validate properties of this type in the
> next release. Now someone brought up the question whether the same is
> planned for ORM, so one can use Optional in entity properties.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Gunnar
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