[hibernate-dev] org.hibernate.jpa.AvailableSettings.EVENT_LISTENER_PREFIX

[Gail Badner]

Ah, OK. I see.
Thanks,
Gail

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Ebersole" <steve at hibernate.org>
> To: "Gail Badner" <gbadner at redhat.com>, "Hibernate" <hibernate-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 2:59:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] org.hibernate.jpa.AvailableSettings.EVENT_LISTENER_PREFIX
> 
> 2 very different things.
> 
> AvailableSettings.EVENT_LISTENER_PREFIX identifies Hibernate event
> listeners that the user wants incorporated into the
> org.hibernate.event.service.spi.EventListenerRegistry.
> It does not name JPA listeners/callbacks; that is done through JPA specific
> means via annotations.
> 
> So no, AvailableSettings.EVENT_LISTENER_PREFIX should not be deprecated.
> In fact I am not even sure why you are asking that.  So either I completely
> missed your point, or you did not explain why you thought it should be
> removed.  I guess maybe you are blurring the distinction between the 2
> concepts of callbacks?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:07 PM Gail Badner <gbadner at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > AvailableSettings.EVENT_LISTENER_PREFIX is set to "hibernate.ejb.event".
> > JpaIntegrator looks for ConfigurationService settings (which include
> > properties) with that prefix, then strips off that prefix to determine the
> > org.hibernate.event.spi.EventType.
> >
> > I see that org.hibernate.event.spi.EventType has non-JPA event types. I
> > can see that it could be useful for an application to specify non-JPA
> > listeners to access Hibernate extensions. Is this what is intended?
> >
> > Since JPA already defines annotations and <entity-listener> XML
> > descriptors to specify JPA entity listeners/callbacks, should Hibernate
> > continue to allow JPA entity listeners/callbacks to be specified using a
> > property with this prefix?
> >
> > In master, the only test I see that uses a property prefixed with
> > "hibernate.ejb.event" is
> > org.hibernate.jpa.test.packaging.PackagedEntityManagerTest. Also, I don't
> > see any documentation for prefixing properties this way.
> >
> > Should AvailableSettings.EVENT_LISTENER_PREFIX be deprecated?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gail
> >
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