[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-3512) Registration of IdentifierGenerators (short naming)

Registration of IdentifierGenerators (short naming) --------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3512 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3512 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: New Feature Components: core, metamodel Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 3.4, 4.x Another way to look at this is to allow configuration of IdentifierGeneratorFactory. Either allow explicit registration under a short name in config: <identifier-generator name="sequence-style" class="org.hibernate.id.enhanced.SequenceStyleGenerator"/> or via an explicit contract: public interface Registerable { public String getRegistrationName(); } public class SequenceStyleGenerator implements IdentifierGenerator, Registerable { ... public String getRegistrationName() { return "sequence-style"; } } The second, while certainly more verbose, can be used applied to other situations where we want to allow registration moving forward (types, property-accessor, etc).