[hibernate-dev] Could UUID be one of the default strategy when AUTO is requested

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 19 January 2015 at 13:33, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am throwing an idea, let me know what you think.
> If the return type of the id property of an entity is either String or UUID, could we automatically consider one fo the uuid strategy as the one matching AUTO?

+1
That seems spot-on for the UUID type.
For String, I wonder if someone would argue that it should actually
map to a string-encoded output of a sequence.. "1", "2" ...
I'd personally agree that this is horrible and it should default to
UUID, just wondering.

Would this violate any spec?

>
> It would be useful for Hibernate OGM but I am also thinking that it makes equal sense to Hibernate ORM users.
>
> Thoughts? I’m sure there are incompatibilities I have not think of.
>
> Emmanuel
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