Re: [hibernate-dev] Programmatic entity mapping API

Anyone with thoughts on this? To elaborate, here's what I have in mind: EntityMapping mapping = session.addEntityMapping(); mapping.entity( Person.class ) .table( "PERSONS" ) .property( "personId" ) .id() .strategy( Strategy.IDENTITY ) .property( "phoneNumbers" ) .oneToMany() .mappedBy( "person" ) .property( "favouriteColor" ) .converter( ColorConverter.class ); I'm curious whether others think that'd be useful or not. Vlad, perhaps you have any insights from the field? Cheers, --Gunnar 2017-10-13 21:21 GMT+02:00 Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt;: > Hi all, > > This has crossed my mind for a few times: should we provide a programmatic > API in Hibernate ORM for mapping entities, as an alternative mapping > definition source to annotations and XML? I.e. something similar to the > programmatic mapping APIs we have in Hibernate Validator and Search. > > It'd probably be a fair bit of work (though giving lots of fun with API > design), but I can see how it could be appealing to folks preferring > API-style ways of configuring their stack, which seems more and more en > vogue these days. Using lambda expressions would be attractive especially > when it comes to plugging in custom behaviours, e.g. for value generators. > > Any thoughts? > > --Gunnar > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev