[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-422) xml entity bindings for subclass entities

xml entity bindings for subclass entities ----------------------------------------- Key: HHH-422 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-422 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 3.0.2 Environment: Hibernate cvs head from main branch .(As of 4/28/05..So 3.0.2?), Oracle 8i. Reporter: Jesse Kuhnert Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: entity-modes Attachments: XMLSubclassTest.zip Original Estimate: 1 week Remaining Estimate: 1 week I'm sure someone else is already in the process of agnonizing over how to handle the entity name resolution issues that are currently floating around in the codebase, but for the sake of not knowing who's doing what and what-not (heh), I thought I would share my couple quick notes learned from trying to make this work today. I was having problems getting an import of xml data into hibernate with derived subclasses of one base class. (Not abstract, derived using the discriminator value column and table per subclass method). Was getting lots of errors trying to map my subclass nodes into the main xml document, even if I named the child nodes the same as the parent. The only eventual temporary solution I could find was by adding the subclass "node name" values into the two Map instances I could find that needed these references. [Mappings class and EntityPersister, ughh I've forgotten the other ones name now. ] The one main culprit already had an obvious method comment with a TODO tag so I'm sure someone is already working on a much better longterm solution than mine.. The only thing I didn't complete was having the ability for the subclass instances to have their own node names. Ie if I had an instance of the base class mapped as a many-to-XX collection in someone's class, I had to specify a node name of "something" to get it to be recognized. I didn't get far enough in my day to get this part as well, but I think it would just require being able to reference the current child somehow. Some sort of XSLT expression like "name()" or "self" perhaps? After that everything worked beautifully of course :) Will be very excited to see this feature come to full bloom, as I plan on using it to synchronize some data points with customer databases sometime this summer? (Am I being too hopeful? I'd love to help, but I'm sure there are plenty of good people doing things already..And I'm I'm fu#$!@ with my own deadlines anyways...)