[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-1749) Convert discriminator field value into class name or class when discriminator field purposedly returned in query

[Ignat Zapolsky (JIRA)]

    [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1749?page=comments#action_25355 ] 

Ignat Zapolsky commented on HHH-1749:
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I'd like to have possibility either use conrete discriminator value that will be returned from HQL query as .class field or to have entity-name returned in such queries instead of concrete discriminator value.


> Convert discriminator field value into class name or class when discriminator field purposedly returned in query
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>          Key: HHH-1749
>          URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1749
>      Project: Hibernate3
>         Type: Improvement

>     Versions: 3.0.5
>  Environment: Win XP SP2, JDK 1.5.0_05, Hibernate 3.0.5
>     Reporter: Ignat Zapolsky

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> It is possible to obtain discriminator field by specifying it in query, it is possible to use it since hibernate automatically replaces entity.class with discriminator column and converts class into associated discriminator value. But retreival of such field is useless since user cannot obtain .class from returned discriminator value and Hibernate expects .class, not discriminator in queries.
> Sample query : select cat.class from my.Cat as cat where ...

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