Re: [hibernate-dev] hibernate-commons-annotations and Class references
On Jul 4, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
I am working in the org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.SimpleValueBinder
class. I need to be able to search for an annotation that exists either
on the property or on the entity that defines that property (or on one
of that entity's super-classes). I have no idea how to achieve this
with hibernate-commons-annotations.
As far as I can tell you need to manually get the Class reference in
order to be able to get the XClass reference? Is that correct?
If you don't have the XClass (or Class) yet you need indeed first get a Class
reference and then via the ReflectionManager (mappings#getReflectionManager())
get the XClass. Then you use the XClass api.
Also, at what point, if any, during SimpleValueBinder processing can
I
be certain that the owning entity class and its super-classes have been
processed?
I am not sure you can. I think the class is more of a container on which you set
properties and then at some stage you call #make(). Do you need to do this annotation
processing at a specific point in time?
Maybe you could do the processing in SimpleValueBinder#setType. There you are already
dealing with XProperty and there is a fair amount of annotation processing going on.
Not sure whether this is suitable in your case.
--Hardy