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

Hi Amin, your idea looks good to me; is this discussion affecting only implementation or does it have some impact on APIs? This is just to check for yourself that you're not forgetting something right? Just wondering: it makes sense in both cases, sorry I'm looking into it after much time. Cheers, Sanne 2009/12/14 Amin Mohammed-Coleman <aminmc(a)gmail.com&gt;: > 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 > >wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I was wondering whether to get some thoughts about the following: >> >> At present none of the mapping classes implement any interface or >> extend >> any abstract classes. So I was thinking of introducing some form of >> interface for property level mapping so that one remembers (mostly >> me :)) to >> add all the methods required at the property level and the same >> for the >> entity level. I'm not sure about this so it would be cool if I >> could get >> your thoughts or start some form of discussion around it. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Amin >> > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >