[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-2896) unified approach for id and natural-id loading

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2896?page=c... ] Eric Dalquist commented on HHH-2896: ------------------------------------ SessionImpl will be restructured to make IdentifierLoadAccess the first-class method of retrieving entities by primary key. All existing load and get methods will be updated to delegate to IdentifierLoadAccess. The initial implementation of NaturalIdLoadAccess will be a two-step process which includes the creation of a new ResolveNaturalIdEvent event type. # Fire a ResolveNaturalIdEvent with the entity name and natural id attribute values. This event will resolve the primary key for the entity. # Fire a LoadEvent using the resolved primary key and provided lock options. A new cache to store the EntityName.[NaturalId]->PK mappings is needed. This cache will be similar to a query cache in functionality, lookups by immutable natural id will never do an isUpToDate check, lookups on mutable natural id's will behave very similarly to existing query cached lookups. The hibernate persist logic will need to be reviewed for its handling of immutable natural id attributes. These attributes should never be included in generated SQL update statements to enforce the immutability constraint of the natural id. New methods to manage this new cache will need to be added to org.hibernate.Cache {code:java} evictNaturalKeyEntry(String entityName, Object key) evictNaturalKeyRegion(String entityName) {code} Improvements that can be planned out beyond the initial feature implementation * Extend the handling of ResolveNaturalIdEvent to load the entity into the session cache if it is not already present, this should reduce the number of db queries by 1 for each naturalid load that is a cache-miss. * Add handling of the various persist/load/merge/delete events to maintain the NaturalID->PK mappings in this new cache. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira