Hey,

I was searching in the API docs how to retrieve an Objects property metadata.

I already read this http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... ame+object

But according the EntityPersister may have changed because there is no getTable or what soever in their
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/ap ... ister.html

I have several object with different properties, these properties have a 1 to 1 mapping to a column name.
--- object --------------------- COLUMN
so Customer.getName() --> C_NAME

Now there's a stored procedure someone wrote that I have to access using plain jdbc and one of the in parameters is the actual columname.
So I wanted to know how I can get the C_NAME from the customer name property.

My best guess was using the ClassMetaData, but I can't seem to find the reference to the Xml Mapping.

Anybody got an idea?

I found this somewhere on the forum, but no replies to his request:
http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.ph ... columnname

SessionFactory factory = session.getSessionFactory();
ClassMetadata metaData = factory.getClassMetadata(Customer.class);
BasicEntityPersister persister = (BasicEntityPersister)metaData;
String[] columns = persister.toColumns("creationDate");
for(int i=0;i<columns.length;i++){
this._logger.info("column name "+columns[i]);
}

It seems to work, can somebody explain me why I have to downcast to the BasicEntityPersister, why not promote the toColumns to the metaData? Would be more obious imho.