[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-3614) Version Tagging

Version Tagging --------------- Key: HHH-3614 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3614 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: New Feature Components: envers Reporter: Corneil du Plessis I would like to suggest a new feature for version tagging in envers. I have a suggestion for how it can be implemented. @Versioned @Taggable public class MyEntity { @Id private Long id; @Basic String someProp; } By implication results in @RevisionTagEntity which can be seen as public class MyEntity_tag { @RevisionNumber private Integer version_numer; @RevisionTagTimestamp private long tag_date; @RevisionTagValue private String tag; // Other @Colum can apply as well as using Integer or Enum // Other properties allow like with @RevisionEntity } This produces a table like: create table MyEntity_tags ( id bigint not null, version_number integer not null, // version_number is _revision tag_date timestamp not null, // assigned when create or modified version_tag varchar(255) not null, // Could be customizable with RevisionTagEntity similar to RevisionEntity primary key (id, version_tag), ); EntityTagging will be a utility class using EntityManager and Entity or Collection of Entities and do: tagLatestVersion(Object entity, String tag) tagVersion(Object entity, Integer version, String tag) moveTag(Object entity, String targetVersion, String tag) determineVersion(Object entity, String tag) The following could be added to allow the retrieval of versions of collections of entities that are tagged in a specific way. RevisionProperty.tag(String tag)