[hibernate-dev] rules of default access
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6246
by working on mocking orm xml into jpa annotations, i found the most complicated logic is
how to determine access (where mocked annotations, i.e. @Column, go, on property or on
field) for an attribute.
by reading jpa spec, i'd think here are the rules of finding default access type for
attributes: (correct me if i'm wrong, thanks)
A. get it from attribute directly
1. if the attribute xml element in orm xml has an access property
2. if the attribute has a @Access on its field ( @Access(FIELD) ) or property(
@Access(PROPERTY) )
B. get it from Entity (MappedSuperClass, Embeddable)
1. if <entity> has "access"
2. if entity class has @Access
loop: 1,2 with entity's parent
3. if <access> is defined in <persistence-unit-metadata>
C. get it from id attribute
1. if <id> is defined in orm xml and has access attribute
2. if id attribute in entity class has @Id with @Access
3. get the @Id position
loop: 1,2,3 with entity's parent class
D. access= PROPERTY
but wrt default access which defined in <persistence-unit-metadata>, the JPA spec
says
{quote}
The access subelement is overridden by the use of any annotations specifying mapping
information on the fields or properties of the entity class; by any Access annotation on
the entity class, mapped superclass, or embeddable class; by any access subelement of the
entity-mappings element; by any Access annotation on a field or property of an entity
class, mapped superclass, or embeddable class; by any access attribute defined within an
entity, mapped-superclass, or embeddable XML element, or by any access attribute defined
within an id, embedded-id, version, basic, embedded, many-to-one, one-to-one, one-to-many,
many-to-many, or element-collection element.
{quote}
which "The access subelement is overridden by the use of any annotations specifying
mapping information on the fields or properties of the entity class" really confuses
Hardy and me.
from our "old" binding code, if defauls access is FIELD, and an entity does not
have any @Access nor access in orm, hibernate just ignore all annotations on PROPERTY.
it seems confilcts with above statement from spec...
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