Hi,

I'm using a legacy database which dosen't have a primary key. So, I created a composite key in this manner..

This is a snippet of Person.hbm.xml

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="com.foo.Person" table="Person">
<composite-id name="PersonPK" class="com.foo.PersonPK">
<key-property name="name" column="name" type="string" />
<key-property name="id" column="id" type="string"/>
</composite-id>
<property name="status" type="string" />
<property name="service_id" type="string" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Here's a snippet of hibernate.cfg.xml

<mapping resource="com/foo/Person.hbm.xml"/>

I have a Person.java and a PersonPK.java. PersonPK is serializable, overrides equals and hashcode

I can do a select on Person (not a problem), however, when I try and load a Person by filling up a PersonPK and then doing something like this..


PersonPK pk = new PersonPK("john", "x43452");
Person person = (Person)session.load(PersonPK.class, pk);

I get this error..

org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: com.foo.PersonPK

My question is, do I need to specify PersonPK specifically somewhere? I think it maps correctly as when Hibernate starts up, I get this log output..

Mapped property: PersonPK -> name, id

what am I doing wrong?? :(

you wanna use the PersonPK object to load it, but you specify you're loading the Person.class.

whatta stoopid mistake to make.. my bad..

thanks!