[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Updated: (HHH-3181) Legacy databases: Advanced handling of missing foreign key values

Legacy databases: Advanced handling of missing foreign key values ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3181 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3181 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: New Feature Affects Versions: 3.2.6 Environment: Hibernate 3.2.6 Oracle 10i (irrelevant) Reporter: Heinz Huber Attachments: not-found-keep-2008-04-04.zip, not-found-keep.zip "keep" as valid value for attribute not-found of many-to-one/many. Effect: If the referenced object can't be found, a dummy object with the given key is constructed. Example: Account.currency contains the value XYZ. This currency can't be found in the corresponding code table. After loading the account contains a currency object XYZ nontheless. Extent: src/org/hibernate/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd src/org/hibernate/cfg/HbmBinder.java src/org/hibernate/engine/ForeignKeys.java src/org/hibernate/mapping/ManyToOne.java src/org/hibernate/mapping/OneToMany.java src/org/hibernate/type/EntityType.java src/org/hibernate/type/ManyToOneType.java src/org/hibernate/type/OneToOneType.java src/org/hibernate/type/TypeFactory.java There are some TODOs left: - The handling of proxies should be improved. - Currently works only per target entity (see comment in test). But it works for