[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HBX-929) Enable base class generation

[Norman Franke (JIRA)]

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Norman Franke commented on HBX-929:
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No I want the button for all classes. The reason is so I can then have the subclass do different things for different classes without affecting my generated files. This is a pretty common paradigm, e.g. have Hibernate Tools generate TableBase and then it would reference classes by their non-base name, e.g:

Generated: PersonBase
Parent: Person

Relationships would point to Person (not PersonBase) and the hbm.xml files would also refer to the Person class, so Hibernate returns them. They may be trivial for many classes, but for those where I'd like to add things, I can. Further regneration won't clobber my Person class.

> Enable base class generation
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>
>                 Key: HBX-929
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-929
>             Project: Hibernate Tools
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: datagen, hbm2java
>    Affects Versions: 3.2beta9
>         Environment: Hibernate 3.2.3
>            Reporter: Norman Franke
>             Fix For: 3.2beta10
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> Using the reverse engineering features, I'd like to be able to have it generate base classes (e.g. TableNameBase) and yet tell Hibernate to use the parent class, e.g. TableName. I read that one can add a meta attribute "generated-class" to do this but (a) there is no way to make this happen via the Eclipse Plugin and (b) even if one modifies the template to add it, it doesn't seem to pick it up (it does end up in the resulting hbm.xml files.) The Run... GUI can't seem to generate Java files from the hbm.xml files either, so one must reverse engineer anyway, which is another annoyance.

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