Re: [hibernate-dev] Interface for mapping classes : Programmatic API

Hi It seems as though my email may have been a bit too vague. So I'll try to explain more or provide some more information to get some advice. At present none of the mapping class extend any particular interface or extend any abstract classes so it becomes difficult to a certain extent to remember what methods need to be present at the entity/property level mapping. I know I have forgotten to add factory methods on some of the mapping classes when they were required. I was therefore thinking would it be worthwhile introducing some form of interface that enforces the correct factory methods are implemented if you are creating a property level mapping or an entity level mapping. So basically something in the lines of public interface PropertyLevelMapping { public FieldMapping field(); public CalendarBridgeMapping calendarBridge(Resolution resolution); .... } public interface EntityLevelMapping { public FullTextFilterDefMapping fullTextFilterDef (Class<?> impl); ..... } So if a mapping class applies to both entity and property level then the mapping class would implement both. Again I'm not sure if this the correct approach or there is something better that can be used. Hope this provides some more info and apologies for not making it more clear! Cheers Amin On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman <aminmc(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: