Hi,

I have what appears to be a simple question, but all my searching was without any success, so I hope that you can help me out:
In my HBM I define a map containing a composite element and I would like to add the key value of the map as a read-only property (with only a getter, no constructor parameter and no setter) to the child class, but I can't figure out how this can be achieved.

The simplified code below refers to my use-case with products including multi-language descriptions.



Thanks in advance for your help.[/code]

I am not sure if this solves your problem but what if you add the map-key column as a property in the composite-element but set it to ready only by update="false" insert="false". It might solve your problem.

Thanks for your hint! Unfortunately this was one of the approaches I already tried with no effect at all (the field had both getter and setter methods and was included in the constructor signature). I also used the scope meta attribute to make the setter ;-) privat but this (of course) has no effect on the constructor signature.

I also did some further research and I'm starting to believe this is not at all such a straight-forward thing as I expected at the beginning :-( so I still hope for further suggestions. Thanks!