Entities can't also be MappedSuperclasses ----------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5822 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5822 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.6.0.Beta1, 3.5.2 Reporter: Laran Evans I recently upgraded Hibernate and discovered trouble. We've got a situation where we have two classes mapped to a single table. @MappedSuperclass @Entity @Table(name="thing") class ThingLite { // ... basic, shared fields } @Entity @Table(name="thing") class Thing extends ThingLite { // ... extra fields } Both classes do truly map to the same table. ThingLite just doesn't pull back all of the fields that Thing does. The table contains a blob column which we don't need most of the time. In retrospect, we could have used a joined table strategy, separating the blob column and the fields specific to Thing into a separate table. But we didn't. And going back now to redesign the tables isn't an option. HHH-5125 makes it no longer possible to have a superclass that is both an Entity and a MappedSuperclass, and I'm not convinced that it shouldn't be allowed. Do you guys agree that it should be possible? I can't think of a specific reason that it shouldn't be. An alternative approach that I thought of would be to use a joined inheritance approach, joining on the same table to get the additional fields for Thing. When I tried it however I got errors relating to circular references. I don't quite understand why this should be the case. Niether Thing nor ThingLite have references to one another other than the fact that Thing extends ThingLite. -- 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