[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Updated: (HHH-6911) Write DiscriminatorValue to DiscriminatorColumn when combined with InheritanceType#JOINED
Steve Ebersole (JIRA)
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Tue Dec 20 21:05:19 EST 2011
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Steve Ebersole updated HHH-6911:
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Description:
The JPA spec states that {{DiscriminatorColumn}} can be used in conjunction with JOINED inheritence. The only section that seems to deal with this combination is _11.1.10 DiscriminatorColumn Annotation_ where it says
{quote}
For the SINGLE_TABLE mapping strategy, and typically also for the JOINED strategy, the persistence
provider will use a type discriminator column. The DiscriminatorColumn annotation is used to
define the discriminator column for the SINGLE_TABLE and JOINED inheritance mapping strategies.
{quote}
Apparently this is meant to imply that even if providers do not need/use the discriminator for concrete class resolution (reading) they are still expected to write it out to the database. Dunno, thats just what we have been told :)
Anyway, like I said, Hibernate itself does not need the discriminator column/value to interpret the concrete classes. However, in the interest of portability we certainly *could* write it out.
Longer term we could *possibly* even use the DiscriminatorColumn/DiscriminatorValue (if present) instead of the SQL CASE statement thing we do now.
See HHH-4358 for the origins of this request...
was:
The JPA spec states that {{DiscriminatorColumn}} can be used in conjunction with JOINED inheritence. The only section that seems to deal with this combination is _11.1.10 DiscriminatorColumn Annotation_ where it says
{quote}
For the SINGLE_TABLE mapping strategy, and typically also for the JOINED strategy, the persistence
provider will use a type discriminator column. The DiscriminatorColumn annotation is used to
define the discriminator column for the SINGLE_TABLE and JOINED inheritance mapping strategies.
{quote}
Apparently this is meant to imply that even if providers do not need/use the discriminator for concrete class resolution (reading) they are still expected to write it out to the database. Dunno, thats just what we have been told :)
Anyway, like I said, Hibernate itself does not need the discriminator column/value to interpret the concrete classes. However, in the interest of portability we certainly *could* write it out. Longer term
Labels: jpa2 (was: )
> Write DiscriminatorValue to DiscriminatorColumn when combined with InheritanceType#JOINED
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HHH-6911
> URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6911
> Project: Hibernate Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: annotations, metamodel
> Reporter: Steve Ebersole
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: jpa2
>
> The JPA spec states that {{DiscriminatorColumn}} can be used in conjunction with JOINED inheritence. The only section that seems to deal with this combination is _11.1.10 DiscriminatorColumn Annotation_ where it says
> {quote}
> For the SINGLE_TABLE mapping strategy, and typically also for the JOINED strategy, the persistence
> provider will use a type discriminator column. The DiscriminatorColumn annotation is used to
> define the discriminator column for the SINGLE_TABLE and JOINED inheritance mapping strategies.
> {quote}
> Apparently this is meant to imply that even if providers do not need/use the discriminator for concrete class resolution (reading) they are still expected to write it out to the database. Dunno, thats just what we have been told :)
> Anyway, like I said, Hibernate itself does not need the discriminator column/value to interpret the concrete classes. However, in the interest of portability we certainly *could* write it out.
> Longer term we could *possibly* even use the DiscriminatorColumn/DiscriminatorValue (if present) instead of the SQL CASE statement thing we do now.
> See HHH-4358 for the origins of this request...
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