Hello,

I'm using the "table per class hierarchy" strategy. I have a strange question about inherited properties. It's a long explanation as to WHY I want to do this, but the question itself is straightforward:

Can I override ride a property in a subclass's mapping with a DIFFERENT column name than it's superclass?

For example:

[class:Animal]
<property name="color" column="COLOR1"/>
[subclass:Dog]
<property name="color" column="COLOR2"/>
[subclass:Cat]
<property name="color" column="COLOR3"/>

Does anyone know if:

1) this will work at all,

2) if queries on the subclasses for the "color" property work as expected.. pulling from COLOR1, COLOR2, COLOR3 depending on the row/subclass?

I understand there is no apparent reason for wanting to do this, but I have a very odd cirumstance to deal with! :)

Thanks,

Ryan

Hibernate is the best!

I tested it out and answered my question. Hibernate does indeed support a subclass overriding a parent property with a completely different column name! And, when you query the superclass using HQL, hibernate actually creates two completely different queries so that it gets the column names right! It then must combine these queries into one result behind the scenes.

Perfect!

Ryan