Hibernate version:3.1RC1
Database: SQL Server 2000

Hi,

1) I can't seem to get collection loaders to work at all. I made my mapping as close to the example from the documentation (down below) and Hibernate just ignores the <loader/> element. In other words, the behavior is the exact same whether or not <loader/> is there (and it is odd behavior, ask for details if you want to hear it). Is it just not implemented in RC1 yet?

2) I'm a little confused on the example below. I know how you normally bind named filter parameters to a query a runtime. But how would you do that on a collection loader query?? In the example below, in <sql-query/>, does the :id parameter have an automatic implied binding to the id property of the Person class? That is actually the behavior that I would like to see, but nothing says that but I'm not sure how else you'd use it.




Thanks!

One clarification to my post above regarding this statement "and it is odd behavior, ask for details if you want to hear it". Scratch that. Now that I think about it, it is not odd.... but more importantly it is completely irrelevant to the rest of my post...

But the questions remain..
Is collection loader implemented in 3.1 rc1? If so, what would cause HB to ignore the <loader/> mapping? In the documentated code example what is :id bound to?

So.... collection loaders are there but we shouldn't use them... or... ?

Allrighty then... is anybody alive out there? I've spent a lot of time on this and am getting nowhere. I even bought the book which has nothing on this. Maybe there's a little piece of documentatin I'm overlooking... either way, all that matters is I'm stuck.

So let's try this another way...

Anybody know why the <loader/> element would be completely ignored in the simplified example below? I can mangle the query-ref property to point to a query that doesn't exist... no error. I can take the entire element out, my query results are the same no matter what. I even tried upgrading to 3.1rc2.

I'm just doing a straight HQL query to test the results... maybe I'm supposed to do something special in HQL??


.. gives me ALL units, not "where unit.type_id = 5"