[hibernate-dev] Plan on adding the JPA 2.2 Query#getResultStream() in 5.2

[Gunnar Morling]

> You don't plan on actually updating the JPA API we use at build time
right?

We cannot do that, you may not provide a version of a spec'ed API with
additional methods. It'd have to be in ORM's sub-interface or similar.

2017-08-02 16:16 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:

> On 2 August 2017 at 15:21, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I plan on adding the JPA 2.2 Query#getResultStream() method since we
> > already support streaming and,
> > this way, Hibernate 5.2 will work even if the client has a JPA 2.2
> > dependency in their classpath.
> >
> > https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/
> jsr338/ChangeLog-JPA-2.2-MR.txt
> >
> > While we can allow the 6.0 release to be fully JPA 2.2 compliant, is
> there
> > anyone against adding the aforementioned change in 5.2 as well?
> >
> > Vlad
>
> Such a change would break Hibernate Search integration.
>
> I'm not strictly against it as we can catch up on the Search side, but
> it introduces a burden for end users to be aware of which precise
> versions they will need: typically we promise that any "micro" in the
> same major.minor will be compatible, so we'd be violating this rule.
> Anyone not using this method would be unaffected so this seems a very
> minor point but I think the "stick to the rules" part is more valuable
> to keep people from worrying.
>
> On which interfaces do you plan adding this method exactly?
>
> You don't plan on actually updating the JPA API we use at build time right?
>
> Thanks,
> Sanne
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