Hibernate version:
Hibernate 2.1.7c

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody can tell me if it's possible to use Comparators if they are anonymous inner classes to sort a Set using the hibernate mapping?

<set
name="mySet"
lazy="true"
sort="Foo.SomeComparator">
...

I have tried a few ways of naming the Comparator that I'd like to use but keep getting a MappingException.

Currently, I am sorting programitically:

Arrays.sort(myArray, Foo.SomeComparator);

Thanks,

Paul

You cannot instantiate an anonymous inner class outside of it's initial declaration - it doesn't have a handle (thus the 'anonymous') and it valid only for the declaration. Hibernate (or any java class for that matter) is not going to be able to create an instance of it.