Re: [hibernate-dev] hiberate-commons-annotations and locating annotations
On Tue 2013-09-03 17:22, Steve Ebersole wrote:
2.a) It seems like there are times when
org.hibernate.cfg.AbstractPropertyHolder#parent would be useful for
what I need to do. But there appears to be times when this is null.
For entity mappings (ClassPropertyHolder) thats fine. But for the
others, that would be problematic. Going back to the
Person#homeAddress example, I'd really need the
ComponentPropertyHolder for Person#homeAddress to register the
converts with ClassPropertyHolder<Person> under the "homeAddress"
base key ("homeAddress.city" for example). Is there a time here
where AbstractPropertyHolder#parent would be null for
ComponentPropertyHolder/CollectionPropertyHolder?
I looked around the code base and the only case I could find is for
ClassPropertyHolder whose parent is indeed null.
2.b) Is this AbstractPropertyHolder#parent the best way you see to
handle path-based converts? Or do you see a better option?
Yes I still think it's the best aproach and frankly I don't quite see
alternatives.