[hibernate-dev] [metamodel] why not just give a generated name to constraint if no one provided in the mapping?

talking about org.hibernate.metamodel.spi.relational.AbstractConstraint#getName proposing this : public String getName() { if ( name == null ) { name = getExportedName(); } return name; } reason: I have to copy all the constraints defined in the root table to the sub table in a table-per-class hierarchy, w/o constraint name, it is hard to use "locate" methods, and I don't want to calculate generatedName() method many times. alternative: we add a defaultName / internalName attribute to the constraint, and use it for the internal constraint look up, the value is generated when constraint object created wdyt? ------------------------- Best Regards, Strong Liu <stliu at hibernate.org> http://about.me/stliu/bio