[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (EJB-306) make column length available in StringType

[jpk (JIRA)]

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jpk commented on EJB-306:
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Not even a clue?

In the JPA way of auto-configuring through persistence.xml specifically the hibernate.archive.autodetection flag, creation of concrete Configuration instances are no longer necessary for bootstrapping Hibernate.  Although it is possible via Ejb3Configuration class, it is arguably not desireable as this burdens the developer with another artifact to maintain.  And the Configuration class holds key schema related attributes that are not available in ClassMetadata namely the DDL column length attribute:

E.g.: @Column(nullable=false, length=32)
public String getEntityPojoProperty() ...

So can we make this length attribute available by way of accessing the ClassMetadata object which is available from the SessionFactory at runtime since the Configuration instance is NOT available at runtime?

> make column length available in StringType
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: EJB-306
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/EJB-306
>             Project: Hibernate Entity Manager
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: EntityManager
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.1.GA
>            Reporter: jpk
>
> Why don't we make available the underlying column length for the org.hibernate.type.StringType?
> This way, JPA flavored hibernate deployments can stick with the ClassMetadata interrogation approach and not have to be beleaguered  with having to have a separate Configuration instance just to get at this highly desirable and useful attribute!

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