Dear all,
I have a Hibernate class which is essentially just a wrapper around loads of collections.
So the class is (massively simplified/pseudo) something like:
Code:
@Entity
public class MyClass {
@OneToMany
Map1
@OneToMany
Map2
@OneToMany
Map3
AddToMap1();
AddToMap2();
AddToMap3();
RemoveFromMap1();
RemoveFromMap2();
RemoveFromMap3();
DoWhateverWithMap1();
DoWhateverWithMap2();
DoWhateverWithMap3();
}
etc. Each of those Maps then has a few methods associated with it (add/remove/interrogate/etc).
As you can imagine, by the time I added the 10th collection or so, the class is getting a tad ridiculous in size.
What I'd love to do is something along the lines of:
Code:
@Entity
public class MyClass {
ClassWrappingMap1;
ClassWrappingMap2;
ClassWrappingMap3;
}
With all the various methods wrapped up in those classes:
Code:
public class ClassWrappingMap1 {
@OneToMany
Map
AddToMap();
RemoveFromMap();
DoWhateverWithMap();
}
I thought perhaps I could use @Embedded for this, but I don't seem to be able to get it to work (Hibernate simply doesn't even try to persist the Map inside the wrapperClass). The relevant section in the reference documentation for whether or not this is possible uses ambiguous language ("While not supported by the EJB3 specification, Hibernate Annotations allows you to use association annotations in an embeddable object (ie @*ToOne nor @*ToMany)."). I suppose that should either be "or", or "but not".
So, basically - is the above possible?
Many thanks,
Ned
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