Resolve qualified from unqualified entity name?

rkennard · **Joined:** Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:53 pm **Posts:** 17

Dear All,

For my project, I need to determine the fully-qualified name of a class in my model (eg. com.foo.Bar) purely from its un-qualified name (eg. Bar).

Clearly, HQL does this all the time because you can write...

Code:

select from Bar

...and it knows that maps to com.foo.Bar. And, indeed this information is all there in the .hbm files.

So my question is, how can I extract it myself? I've been digging around from Session->SessionFactory and looking at the ClassMetadata, but everything in there is already fully-qualified?

So how does the unqualified->qualified mapping in HQL work?

Regards,

Richard.

scesbron · **Joined:** Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:23 am **Posts:** 368

Configuration.getImports() seems to give a Map that has the SimpleName as a key and a fully qualified name as the value

rkennard · **Joined:** Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:53 pm **Posts:** 17

Awesome - thanks scesbron!

Is there an 'official' way to navigate from the Session back to the Configuration (possibly via SessionFactory), or should I lug my Configuration around with me?

scesbron · **Joined:** Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:23 am **Posts:** 368

No

The SessionFactory does not hold a reference on the configuration object. If you want to use the configuration object you have to hold it somewhere in your app.
Although SessionFactoryImplementor has a method getImportedClassName that does the same, so you can use your SessionFactory for that but you will have to cast it to SessionFactoryImplementor to do that (it is not public on the SessionFactory interface)

rkennard · **Joined:** Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:53 pm **Posts:** 17

You are an absolute legend.