[hibernate-dev] why are embedded ids indexed?

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On 6 juin 2011, at 16:41, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:

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> On 6 juin 2011, at 14:34, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
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>> 2011/6/6 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>>> I mean this setting being set to true (RE OGM).
>> 
>> I'm wondering how you would use that, and especially if you wouldn't
>> need the class type as well; you wouldn't need it today as all mapping
>> is static and so the type can be inferred from the owning
>> documentBuilder, but we had some plans to make this dynamic (not sure
>> yet?) so we might need to store the runtime type.
>> 
> 
> The id is unique within a class hierarchy that should be sufficient for most cases.

Oh an JPA *does not* support what you guys want to do with your downcasting at the query level.