Please forgive me if this is an obvious question...

I'm having trouble getting an entire collection from a mapped class as a collection (not the individual elements). I cannot figure out the syntax (if it is possible).

The reason I want to do this is because I would like to dynamically instantiate a 'view' class inside a query, with one of the arguments to the constructor being a Set from my mapped class.

My hibernate version is 2.1.7

Here is roughly my class mapping:



my "view" class constructor looks like this:




if I try this query



it fails with an exception saying "expecting 'elements' or 'indices' after: id"

But the elements are not what I want, I want the whole set as a set.

Is there any way to do this? What would the syntax be?

(calling the query with elements(item.mySet) is not what I want - that would return a join with each of the MySetObject objects individually. I want the whole set).

I have looked through "Hibernate in Action" and searched, I can't find anything like this.

Thank you.

Hibernate version:
2.1.7

Mapping documents:
see above

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
see above

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:

not relevant, I am asking about syntax

Name and version of the database you are using:

sybase ASE 15

The generated SQL (show_sql=true):

not relevant, I am asking about syntax

Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:

not relevant, I am asking about syntax[/code]

Does Hibernate 2.1.7 support the constructor syntax?

what you are trying is not possible

yes.




ok, thanks. I'll just build sets from the results given by elements()