Allow generic handling of any Hibernate type for post-insert generated identifiers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-4443 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-4443 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 3.5 See HB-92 for the original request. Much of the discussion unfortunately occurred in a private email thread with the original requester, but here is the proposed solution: Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: The "more correct" solution is along the lines a contract to allow the type to handle this like you said. I'm thinking something like an optional interface for the type to publish that fact: public interface ResultSetIdentifierConsumer { public Serializable consumeIdentifier(ResultSet resultSet); } then IdentifierGeneratorFactory (called IdentifierGeneratorHelper now btw) can say: public static Serializable get(ResultSet rs, Type type) ... { if ( type instanceof ResultSetIdentifierConsumer ) { return ( ( ResultSetIdentifierConsumer ) type ).consumeIdentifier( rs ); } Class clazz = type.getReturnedClass(); if ( clazz == Long.class ) { return new Long( rs.getLong( 1 ) ); } else if ( clazz == Integer.class ) { return new Integer( rs.getInt( 1 ) ); } else if ( clazz == Short.class ) { return new Short( rs.getShort( 1 ) ); } else if ( clazz == String.class ) { return rs.getString( 1 ); } else { throw ... } } and you can define a type : public class MyCustomLongIdType ... implements ResultSetIdentifierConsumer ... { public Serializable consumeIdentifier(ResultSet resultSet) { return new MyCustomLongId( resultSet.getLong( 1 ) ); } ... } -- 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