[hibernate-dev] "Hibernate Types" project

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 28 September 2017 at 11:39, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> 2017-09-28 11:28 GMT+02:00 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's because not all database support ARRAY or JSON.
>>
>> We've been discussing this on the mailing list (around one year ago) and I
>> remember we concluded that we can only add these types to ORM core
>> if the vast majority of the Hibernate-supported database offer JSON or
>> ARRAY.
>>
>
> I see. A separate project/repo under the Hibernate umbrella could be an
> alternative, too ("Hibernate Extras" or so). I.e. some middle ground
> between part of ORM proper and fully being 3rd party.

I'd (eventually) aim to include it in the hibernate-orm repository,
but as a separate jar?

So people can take it or ignore it depending on their needs, yet we
can all help making sure it keeps working for future releases.

I would not incorporate it into the hibernate-core artifact so that we
can exclude it from inclusion in e.g. WildFly until we feel it's ready
for that.

No rush though, I guess it would be easier to wait for some 6.0 branch
to be stable.

Thanks,
Sanne

>
> Also, even if we add support for them, it's improbable that we are going to
>> backport it to 5.1, 5.0, 4.3, 4.2 and 4.1. So, since my blog readers
>> requested me to provide these types via Maven Central, I decided to bundle
>> them in a new library.
>>
>> If more and more databases add support for JSON, we could add support for
>> it in 6.0.
>> For ARRAY, I doubt that more DBs will support it if they haven't done it
>> by now.
>>
>> Vlad
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Vlad,
>>>
>>> I recently learned about your "Hibernate Types" project [1]. It's great to
>>> see support for JSON, arrays, etc!
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, though, why did you decide to make it a separate project
>>> instead of adding these very useful types to Hibernate itself? Seems it'd
>>> be easier for people to us them that way.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> --Gunnar
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://vladmihalcea.com/2017/09/25/the-hibernate-types-open
>>> -source-project-is-born/
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