how to map User Type for element

strokine · **Joined:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:15 am **Posts:** 8

Hibernate version:
3.0
Name and version of the database you are using:
MySQL 4.1

Hi,
I had a simple class which had one User Type named state. Here is a mapping file fragment:

Code:

private State state;

...... getter/setter .........

<property name="state" column="STATE">
       <type name="jyaga.datawork.valuelabel.ValueLabelUserType">
                <param name="class">jyaga.datawork.type.State</param>
       </type>
</property>

Now I need to have List of States in this class instead of one state:

Code:

private List<State> states;

......... getter/setter .........

If it would be just String (List<String>) it would be simple:

Code:

<bag name="states" table="good_faith_estimate_state">
            <key column="CORR_ID"/>
            <element column="STATE" type="string"/>
</bag>

But how to map User Type with parameter in this case?
Please help,
thanks,
Eugene

tenwit · **Joined:** Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:08 pm **Posts:** 2008

Easiest thing to do is to add a typedef near the beginning of your .hbm.xml file. See ref docs, section 5.2. You'll have something like:

Code:

<typedef class="jyaga.datawork.valuelabel.ValueLabelUserType"  name="state">
    <param name="class">jyaga.datawork.type.State</param>
</typedef>

Then anywhere you need to use that user type, including in the bag, you can use type="state".