Custom types cannot be uses for ids with indentity and sequence generators -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HB-232 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HB-232 Project: Hibernate2 Type: Improvement

Components: core Versions: 2.0rc2 Environment: Any environment. MySql DB Reporter: James Lewis Assignee: Gavin King Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.1 beta 1

All of my persistent objects have a custom primary key object. For instance, my Part object has a PartID as the key. This allows me to perform compile time type checking in my service layer. I was ably to create a UserType that converted the coulmn type of integer to PartID. No problem, it worked great. However, the IdentityGeneratorFactory throw an exception because my custom types return PartID.class as the return type. The IdentityGeneratorFactory's 'get' method only takes classes that are of type Integer.class, Long.class, and Short.class. The API should be changed so that the get method returns a Serializable instead of a Number, and takes a Type instead of a class. This would allow the IdentityGeneratorFactory to return the custom class type. What are your thoughts. James