Perfect. That worked—thanks for the help! I’ve made some pretty good progress—you can save entities and some associations, and retrieve some properties lazily. Unfortunately, I’m having a bit of trouble with getting access to all of the type information I need. In particular, say you have the hierarchy: @Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS) (1) @Entity @Table(name = “persistable”) Public class Persistable { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY) Long id; @Basic String persistableName; } @Entity @Table(“person_table”) Public class Person extends Persistable { @Basic @Column(name = “first_name”) String firstName; @Basic @Column String lastName; } I need to generate the schema: :persistable/persistableName :Person/first_name :Person/lastName And access it from a few contexts. Schema Definition When generating the schema, I need to be able to get the table name, which I was able to from the EntityPersisters available in SessionFactoryImpl. From there, I needed to be able to get each property on each class, its type, and its alias (as defined by @Column), which I couldn’t figure out how to do. I looked through both the EntityMetamodel and the ClassMetamodels on each persister, but it wasn’t clear how to get that. Looking in the ClassMetadata, I found the property names, but that included all of the properties for all of the linear supertypes of the associated entity. Looking at the EntityMetamodel, I found I could get all of the properties, but I couldn’t figure out how to filter out the properties declared in the current entity type. I ended up scanning the annotations again to get the information I needed to generate the schema, which doesn’t seem like a good solution. Now, I’m running into the same problem retrieving a tuple: public Tuple getTuple(EntityKey k, TupleContext c) { final Long id = getOrThrowUnexpectedId(k); final Entity entity = retrieveEntity(id); return new Tuple(new LazyEntityBackedTupleSnapshot(entity, tupleContext)); } public class LazyEntityBackedTupleSnapshot implements TupleSnapshot { final Entity entity; final TupleContext context; //constructor, etc. public Object get(String column) { return entity.get(column); } } Now, the problem is, say the entity that I retrieved was a Person. If I call p.getPersistableName() , then entity.get(column) needs to be Entity.get(“:persistable/persistableName”) to get the value. I could search through the linear supertypes of the current type if I could get it. I notice that the actual TupleContext that I’m getting has an OptionsContextImpl with an entity type that I can use to search for the appropriate entity type, but that’s private, and I don’t want to use reflection to get it. I’m sure I’m just missing some cool feature of OGM here, and couldn’t find it looking through the other implementations. Any additional help would be fantastic. Thanks! From: gunnar.morling(a)googlemail.com [mailto:gunnar.morling@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Gunnar Morling Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:43 AM To: Haswell, Josiah D Cc: hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Question about substituting IDs in Hibernate OGM Hi Josiah, It's great to hear that you are working an a backend for Hibernate OGM! Regarding ids, it should work for you if they are mapped using the IDENTITY strategy: @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY) Long id; This causes the Hibernate ORM engine to read back the id value generated by the datastore upon insertion. To make it work, your GridDialect for OGM needs to implement the IdentityColumnAwareGridDialect facet [1]. You can check out the MongoDB dialect for an example. If this works and this kind of id generation is the only one which is useful for Datomic (i.e. table/sequence strategies don't make any sense), you may validate mapped entities by means of a SchemaDefiner [2] (an experimental contract of OGM). An example is CouchDBSchemaDefiner. Let us know how it goes or in case you run into any other issues. --Gunnar [1] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/core/src/main/java... [2] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/couchdb/src/main/j... 2015-02-11 2:40 GMT+01:00 Haswell, Josiah D <Josiah.Haswell@ca.com<mailto:Josiah.Haswell@ca.com>>: Hi folks, I'm creating a Hibernate OGM implementation for Datomic, and I have a question about IDs. Say I have the entity @Entity public class Person { @Id @GeneratedValue Long id; } In Datomic, you have to assign a temporary ID before submitting the transaction. Datomic will then return the actual persistence ID after the transaction has completed. My question is, how can I get the actual ID back into the entity? Thanks! Josiah _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org<mailto:hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev

Hi Gunnar, I didn’t even think to look at the configuration, thanks ☺. All of the inheritance strategies are supported in Datomic, but Join is probably going to be most commonly used (it certainly is in our schemata). While it’s not a blocking concern, an important optimization would be to link all of the associations by temp ID and commit them in a big transaction, which I think will require some extension to OGM. I suspect that you folks on OGM will have some good ideas about mapping JPA transactions to Datomic transactions. I’d certainly be happy to work on getting some of this stuff into OGM if there are existing designs that I could help implement. I’d also like to start contributing the project to OGM if it’s appropriate in order to get some more experienced eyes on it. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks! Josiah From: gunnar.morling(a)googlemail.com [mailto:gunnar.morling@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Gunnar Morling Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:43 AM To: Haswell, Josiah D Cc: hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Question about substituting IDs in Hibernate OGM 2015-02-12 1:37 GMT+01:00 Haswell, Josiah D <Josiah.Haswell@ca.com<mailto:Josiah.Haswell@ca.com>>: Perfect. That worked—thanks for the help! Cool :) I’ve made some pretty good progress—you can save entities and some associations, and retrieve some properties lazily. Unfortunately, I’m having a bit of trouble with getting access to all of the type information I need. In particular, say you have the hierarchy: @Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS) (1) @Entity @Table(name = “persistable”) Public class Persistable { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY) Long id; @Basic String persistableName; } @Entity @Table(“person_table”) Public class Person extends Persistable { @Basic @Column(name = “first_name”) String firstName; @Basic @Column String lastName; } I need to generate the schema: :persistable/persistableName :Person/first_name :Person/lastName TABLE_PER_CLASS is meant to create a table for each type of the hierarchy with *all* its attributes. So actually you'd have to generate the following schema: :Persistable/persistableName :Person/persistableName :Person/first_name :Person/lastName We also support SINGLE_TABLE which creates one table for all the types of the hierarchy, so the schema would have to be the following: :Persistable/persistableName :Persistable/first_name :Persistable/lastName :Persistable/DTYPE //denotes the entity type Atm. we don't support JOINED (which may be what you had in mind). And access it from a few contexts. Schema Definition When generating the schema, I need to be able to get the table name, which I was able to from the EntityPersisters available in SessionFactoryImpl. From there, I needed to be able to get each property on each class, its type, and its alias (as defined by @Column), which I couldn’t figure out how to do. I looked through both the EntityMetamodel and the ClassMetamodels on each persister, but it wasn’t clear how to get that. Looking in the ClassMetadata, I found the property names, but that included all of the properties for all of the linear supertypes of the associated entity. Looking at the EntityMetamodel, I found I could get all of the properties, but I couldn’t figure out how to filter out the properties declared in the current entity type. I ended up scanning the annotations again to get the information I needed to generate the schema, which doesn’t seem like a good solution. Schema definition is still a weak point in OGM atm., the grid dialects we began with tend to have no strong schema. There is the SchemaDefiner contract which you need to implement for this (and make known via YourDatastoreProvider#getSchemaDefinerType()). In YourSchemaDefiner#initializeSchema() you can obtain everything you need e.g. like so: @Override public void initializeSchema(Configuration configuration, SessionFactoryImplementor factory) { Iterator<PersistentClass> classMappings = configuration.getClassMappings(); while ( classMappings.hasNext() ) { PersistentClass mapping = classMappings.next(); Table table = mapping.getTable(); Iterator<Column> columnIterator = table.getColumnIterator(); while(columnIterator.hasNext()) { Column column = columnIterator.next(); String columnName = column.getName(); // do something with column... } } } Note that this API stems straight from Hibernate ORM and is not exactly what we'd like to have for Hibernate OGM. So be prepared for changes in this area in future revisions (the entire SchemaDefiner contract is considered experimental atm., also Configuration will go away in Hibernate ORM in the future), but for now it should allow you to do the right thing. Definitely better than doing manual annotation scanning :) Now, I’m running into the same problem retrieving a tuple: public Tuple getTuple(EntityKey k, TupleContext c) { final Long id = getOrThrowUnexpectedId(k); final Entity entity = retrieveEntity(id); return new Tuple(new LazyEntityBackedTupleSnapshot(entity, tupleContext)); } public class LazyEntityBackedTupleSnapshot implements TupleSnapshot { final Entity entity; final TupleContext context; //constructor, etc. public Object get(String column) { return entity.get(column); } } Now, the problem is, say the entity that I retrieved was a Person. If I call p.getPersistableName() , then entity.get(column) needs to be Entity.get(“:persistable/persistableName”) to get the value. I could search through the linear supertypes of the current type if I could get it. I notice that the actual TupleContext that I’m getting has an OptionsContextImpl with an entity type that I can use to search for the appropriate entity type, but that’s private, and I don’t want to use reflection to get it. See above, you should take all the column values from the Person table (or the Persistable table when working with SINGLE_TABLE). You can get the table name from the given entity key. From the tuple context btw. you can get the columns we actually need, so you don't need to fetch any unmapped columns from the datastore. I’m sure I’m just missing some cool feature of OGM here, and couldn’t find it looking through the other implementations. Any additional help would be fantastic. Thanks! No problem. Hope it helps, --Gunnar From: gunnar.morling@googlemail.com<mailto:gunnar.morling@googlemail.com> [mailto:gunnar.morling@googlemail.com<mailto:gunnar.morling@googlemail.com>] On Behalf Of Gunnar Morling Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:43 AM To: Haswell, Josiah D Cc: hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org<mailto:hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Question about substituting IDs in Hibernate OGM Hi Josiah, It's great to hear that you are working an a backend for Hibernate OGM! Regarding ids, it should work for you if they are mapped using the IDENTITY strategy: @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY) Long id; This causes the Hibernate ORM engine to read back the id value generated by the datastore upon insertion. To make it work, your GridDialect for OGM needs to implement the IdentityColumnAwareGridDialect facet [1]. You can check out the MongoDB dialect for an example. If this works and this kind of id generation is the only one which is useful for Datomic (i.e. table/sequence strategies don't make any sense), you may validate mapped entities by means of a SchemaDefiner [2] (an experimental contract of OGM). An example is CouchDBSchemaDefiner. Let us know how it goes or in case you run into any other issues. --Gunnar [1] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/core/src/main/java... [2] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-ogm/blob/master/couchdb/src/main/j... 2015-02-11 2:40 GMT+01:00 Haswell, Josiah D <Josiah.Haswell@ca.com<mailto:Josiah.Haswell@ca.com>>: Hi folks, I'm creating a Hibernate OGM implementation for Datomic, and I have a question about IDs. Say I have the entity @Entity public class Person { @Id @GeneratedValue Long id; } In Datomic, you have to assign a temporary ID before submitting the transaction. Datomic will then return the actual persistence ID after the transaction has completed. My question is, how can I get the actual ID back into the entity? Thanks! Josiah _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org<mailto:hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev