[hibernate-dev] Integrator and retrieving objects

[Steve Ebersole]

The phrase 'unwrap' here might be a bit misleading because you may not 
always be dealing with wrapped objects.  But the idea itself is still 
solid I believe.  Think of it as a multi-directional cast; you can 
up-cast as well as down-cast.

We do need to be very very very careful about stack overflow here though.

On 04/06/2011 06:15 AM, Adam Warski wrote:
>
>> FullTextSession ftSession = session.unwrap(FullTextSession.class);
>> //the current approach is via some static helper method
>> //FullTextSession ftSession =  Search.getFullTextSession(session);
>>
>> That would mean that the integration point between HSearch and Hibernate would have an unwrap method and Hibernate would delegate the unwrap calls to each integrator until a non null object is returned.
>>
>> It's just a thought, WDYT?
>
> But while EntityManager wraps a Session object, a Session doesn't wrap a FullTextSession, but the other way round, no?
>

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