[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Issue Comment Edited: (HHH-6911) Write DiscriminatorValue to DiscriminatorColumn when combined with InheritanceType#JOINED

Write DiscriminatorValue to DiscriminatorColumn when combined with InheritanceType#JOINED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6911 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6911 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: annotations, metamodel Reporter: Steve Ebersole Priority: Minor Labels: jpa2 The JPA spec states that {{DiscriminatorColumn}} can be used in conjunction with JOINED inheritence. The only section that seems to deal with this combination is _11.1.10 DiscriminatorColumn Annotation_ where it says {quote} For the SINGLE_TABLE mapping strategy, and typically also for the JOINED strategy, the persistence provider will use a type discriminator column. The DiscriminatorColumn annotation is used to define the discriminator column for the SINGLE_TABLE and JOINED inheritance mapping strategies. {quote} Apparently this is meant to imply that even if providers do not need/use the discriminator for concrete class resolution (reading) they are still expected to write it out to the database. Dunno, thats just what we have been told :) Anyway, like I said, Hibernate itself does not need the discriminator column/value to interpret the concrete classes. However, in the interest of portability we certainly *could* write it out. Longer term we could *possibly* even use the DiscriminatorColumn/DiscriminatorValue (if present) instead of the SQL CASE statement thing we do now. See HHH-4358 for the origins of this request...