[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-6911) Write DiscriminatorValue to DiscriminatorColumn when combined with InheritanceType#JOINED

[Julien Martin (JIRA)]

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Julien Martin commented on HHH-6911:
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I think this is an important feature to have. Do you plan on implementing it in the future?

> Write DiscriminatorValue to DiscriminatorColumn when combined with InheritanceType#JOINED
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>
>                 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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