hi,

is there a way for the 'discriminatorType' to be injected to a datamember of a class ?

or in other words, how can i check a type of an entity ?
i cannot use the instanceof because the class i get, can be a proxy !

thanks,
Eran.

Hi!

Can somebody give us a hint with this topic?

I've got two classes, Person, and Student. Student is a subclass of Person.

Now, I've got a List of Person, but some of it's elements are students. How am I supposed to cast these objects so that I can access fields and methods declared in Student?


Thanks in advance.

you can use Hibernate.getClass(yourObject).

that way you will get the actual class and then decide to which class to cast it.

pay attention, that the object's data will be "retrieved" - meaning, if your object is "lazy" it will no longer be that and its data will be retrieved - and you might performance penalty for that (depends what you want to achieve).

Eran

Also you could try to implement your own "proxy-interfaces". It is described here.

Wow! your documentation is very nice.. thanks..

Thank you both for your help!

I think proxies are too complex for me, so I will try getClass. I'm now looking for a way to use it without "polluting" my classes with Hibernate calls. Maybe there's a general way to do it..