[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-1749) Convert discriminator field value into class name or class when discriminator field purposedly returned in query

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1749?page=c... ] Xavier Dury commented on HHH-1749: ---------------------------------- Hi, I would also like to be able to retrieve the entity-name/class-name through a query. My use-case is the following: We have an entity A (id, description, bigLobContent) and some other entities B and C which both extend A. We want to show the user a list of A's without loading bigLobContent, so we have a special View/DTO: "select new ADTO(a.id, a.description, a.class) from A a where ..." but we would like to keep and display the real type of object the DTO was referring to. Actually, doing something like "select a.id, a.description, a.class from A a" will result in something like [42, 'blah', 2] whereas "select a.class from A a" will give an error. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira