Re: [hibernate-dev] how to get an EntityBinding by class name?

Hi, here are some of my thoughts around this. In Hibernate you can map the same class multiple times using different entity names. The map of entity bindings kept in Metadata contains all entity bindings keyed against these unique names. Trying to look up a binding by class name is not unique and we would have to deal with multiple bindings. must be unique within the persistence unit). If I am not mistaken atm JPA entities are mapped in the entityBindingMap map using the unqualified class name (which is probably wrong). In the source interfaces we have: EntitySource#getEntityName() EntitySource#getClassName() EntitySource#getJpaEntityName() // taken from @Entity#name To be honest I am not 100% sure why we need the explicit #getJpaEntityName(). We need to verify the proper handling of all these names and make sure we use them appropriately. Last but not least, looking at @EntityResult I can see that the connection to the corresponding entity is made via a Class reference (EntityResult#entityClass()), not by name. I guess that's why you need to this in the lookup in the first place. For this use case iterating seems fair enough for the moment. --Hardy On Jul 6, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Strong Liu wrote: