[hibernate-dev] BoostStrategy issues

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 4 déc. 09, at 16:51, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:

>
> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:35:51 -0300, Emmanuel Bernard
> <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
>
>> But then, would it make sense to reuse @Boost instead of a separated
>> annotation as it is today?
>
> The main reason for using an explicit @Dynamic boost was to be more
> explicit.
> Using @Boost means we need to add another parameter  
> 'boostStrategyImpl'
> which would
> default to DefaultBoostStrategy.
>
> The question is then what you do if someone specifies a boost value,  
> eg
> 2.0f together
> with a CustomBoostStrategy? Throw an exception, print a warning, apply
> both? I guess
> we would have to apply both, so effectively you define two boost  
> values
> with the same
> annotation.
>
> Both solutions - standalone @DynamicBoost or dynamic boosting rolled  
> into
> @Boost - have
> their pro and cons. Personally I lean towards @DynamicBoost at the  
> moment.

Right good summary,
But adding @DynamicBoost in @Field will be fugly and raises the same  
problems.