Why not Persist unmapped subclasses as parent class

emmanuel · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2003 9:37 am

If I map A but not SubA (a subclass of A), I cannot save SubA. I get a MappingException: No persister for SubA.

Why can't Hibernate check class hierarchy to find the appropriate persister ?
Is there a fundamental reason or an optimization tip ?
I can't figure it out knowing that CGLIB will actually subclass A for proxying it.

gavin · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2003 10:55 am

no reason why we can't do this. its easy - one method to change

rushealy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:51 pm

Has this change been made, or should I do it myself?

Thanks

emmanuel · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:58 am

I didn't do the feature afterall. I did a quick look and found it wouldn't be that transparent. But give it a try and tell us.