[hibernate-dev] Any change of adding generics to Hibernate specific API

[Steve Ebersole]

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-9761

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> We discussed this before on the list.  The main thing to decide is
> Session#load and proxies.  Basically there are times when:
>
> public T load(Class<T> entityType, Object id)
>
> simply will not work.  This is the discussion I started wrt annotating the
> proxy interface, rather than the impl class.
>
> Basically I am not going to do this work piecemeal.  When we add typing, I
> will add it everywhere at once.  So as soon as we can come up with an
> elegant solution for that, I can add that to the roadmap.  And please see
> the previous discussion before we just start re-hashing the same points
> over and over :)  It was a quite long thread.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vlad,
>>
>> That’s an interesting proposal. It is certainly possible. But since the
>> Session and Query API (Hibernate native) is historically non typed, I
>> wonder if that is worth introducing these new typed version and add more
>> overloaded methods on Session.
>> Do you think it is worth the additional complexity?
>>
>> Steve, do you have some plan for a Session API revamp some time in the
>> future? Some spring cleaning of sort.
>>
>> Emmanuel
>>
>>
>> > On 15 Apr 2015, at 22:27, Mihalcea Vlad <mih_vlad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Although many rely on the Java Persistence API, Hibernate still offers
>> specific features, like mapping a native SQLQuery result set to a DTO:
>> > .setResultTransformer(Transformers.aliasToBean(DTO.class));
>> > Is it possible to add TypedQuery and TypedSQLQuery, analogous to the
>> JPA specs, so you can use generics with specific API?
>> > Adding new interfaces and some overloaded Session methods wouldn't
>> break backward compatibility.
>> >
>> > Vlad MiIhalcea
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