[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HBX-929) Enable base class generation

[Norman Franke (JIRA)]

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Norman Franke commented on HBX-929:
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Since this paradigm is so common, I'd rather it be a simple checkbox in the GUI. I can't find any documentation (and I looked!) on how to do that using the existing implementation and couldn't. I like the philosophy of making the common easy, thus my request. Creating non-generated subclasses to contain add methods and other infrastructure would make maintenance easier. Not all classes need this, so I can't think of a way to auto generate this. I can add my base object copy method that produces a non-proxy, non-hibernate subclass for serialization via Tapestry or similar using your idea.

> Enable base class generation
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>
>                 Key: HBX-929
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-929
>             Project: Hibernate Tools
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: datagen, hbm2java
>    Affects Versions: 3.2beta9
>         Environment: Hibernate 3.2.3
>            Reporter: Norman Franke
>             Fix For: 3.2beta10
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> Using the reverse engineering features, I'd like to be able to have it generate base classes (e.g. TableNameBase) and yet tell Hibernate to use the parent class, e.g. TableName. I read that one can add a meta attribute "generated-class" to do this but (a) there is no way to make this happen via the Eclipse Plugin and (b) even if one modifies the template to add it, it doesn't seem to pick it up (it does end up in the resulting hbm.xml files.) The Run... GUI can't seem to generate Java files from the hbm.xml files either, so one must reverse engineer anyway, which is another annoyance.

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