Hi

I'm using a many-to-one relationship with a table that has a composite id. So my xml mapping file has an entry like this:

<many-to-one name="itemClass" class="package.ItemClass">
<column name="class_id"/>
<column name="class_version"/>
</many-to-one>

When Hibernate parses the file it says that the attribute "type" is required for the element many-to-one. What value do I have to put in this attribute?

Thanks

can't tell - whole mapping file please...

This is the mapping file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 2.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="package.Item" table="jw_item">
<id name="id" column="id" type="big_decimal">
<generator class="hilo"/>
</id>
<many-to-one name="itemClass" class="package.ItemClass">
<column name="class_id"/>
<column name="class_version"/>
</many-to-one>
<many-to-one name="parent" column="parent_id" type="big_decimal" class="package.Item"/>
</class>

<class name="package.ItemClass" table="jw_class_def">
<composite-id>
<key-property name="id" column="id" type="big_decimal"/>
<key-property name="version" column="version" type="big_decimal"/>
</composite-id>
<many-to-one name="parent" class="package.ItemClass">
<column name="class_id"/>
<column name="class_version"/>
</many-to-one>
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

is broken. remove the type attribute.

Thanks it worked!