Hi,

before Hibernate 3.6.0, I was defining the following UserTypes (simplified to illustrate):

Now that Hibernate.custom() is deprecated, what is the correct way to obtain an instance of Type for a particular UserType class inside another (Composite)UserType?

I should use a TypeFactory but how do I get such a reference inside a UserType? I've been looking for some interface like TypeFactoryAware/SessionFactoryAware that my UserType could implement but I didn't find any.

Thanks,

Xavier

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to basically do the same thing as Xavier: creating a CompositeUserType with an association in it. All the examples I've seen (online and in Gavin King's Java Persistence with Hibernate) have only the rather naive case of simple members.

Prior to Hibernate 3.6.0.Final, I used Hibernate.entity() to return column types in getPropertyTypes, which seemed to work.
In Hibernate 3.6.0.Final that use is deprecated, and the only way to receive TypeHelper is from a SessionImplementor, inaccessible in getPropertyTypes.

I've followed Eyal Lupu's message (http://www.jroller.com/eyallupu/entry/h ... nnotations), as well as the examples from Hibernate's website / Gavin King's book when creating these custom user types.

I'm asking because one of the exceptions I get (inconsistently I might add) is "Wrong number of columns" for entities which have my custom type as an association.

My question is: Can someone from the Hibernate team please post a Hibernate 3.6.0.Final-compatible coded example of a case where a userType has an association?

The examples on the websites and Hibernate-maintained sources are not up to date on this point.

Thanks in advance,

Gil.

I have the same question as Xavier. Does anyone have an answer as to how a call to Hibernate.custom() can be changed for code using v3.6.5 now that that method has been deprecated?

Or is the answer that there won't be a way until v4.0?

It appears that the relevant JIRAs have been closed (HHH-5138 & HHH-5182) as of v3.6.0.

Thanks,
John

with Hibernate 4+,

I'm now able to do the following:hope it will help others.

Xavier