[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (ANN-527) reference a target entity (in a collection) by entity name

[Emmanuel Bernard (JIRA)]

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Emmanuel Bernard commented on ANN-527:
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Your use case is valid but fairly specific: you have one multi table class and all the other ones are regular annotated entities (no multi mappings).
Providing a patch should be reasonably doable (not too difficult), it's not on my top priority list at the moment.

> reference a target entity (in a collection) by entity name
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ANN-527
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-527
>             Project: Hibernate Annotations
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: binder
>            Reporter: Armin Haaf
>
> It is only possible to reference a targetEntity by class.
> @ManyToMany(targetEntity = TestImpl.class)
> List<Test> myList;
> This makes it impossible to exchange TestImpl.class implemention by another implemention by the mappings definition.
> It would be helpful to reference a targetEntity by name.
> @ManyToMany(targetEntityName = "Test")
> This would help a lot to implement moduls and frameworks.
> Another way to support this would be to search for a implementation of the collection elements (which are typically Interfaces) in the mapped entities 

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