[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... ] Steve Ebersole commented on HHH-2896: ------------------------------------- Initial design swag... First add 2 new interfaces: {code} /** * Specifically access by id */ public interface IdentifierLoadAccess<T> { public IdentifierLoadAccess<T> with(LockOptions lockOptions); public T getReference(Object id); public T load(Object id); } /** * Specifically access by natural-key */ public interface NaturalIdLoadAccess<T> { public NaturalIdLoadAccessT<T> with(LockOptions lockOptions); public NaturalIdLoadAccess<T> using(String attributeName, Object value); public T getReference(); public T load(); } {code} Eventually, add a method to the above {{NaturalIdLoadAccess}} interface to allow "static type-safe" means for defining values (ala jpa criteria query). And then add some new methods to {{Session}}: {code} public IdentifierLoadAccess byId(String entityName); public <T> IdentifierLoadAccess<T> byId(Class<T> entityClass); public NaturalIdLoadAccess byNaturalKey(String entityName); public <T> NaturalIdLoadAccess<T> byNaturalKey(Class<T> entityClass); {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira