I have a class mapping in which I would like to have a particular value populated in the database for this type of class; however, I do not need this property mapped to the class(i.e. no getter or setter). In my example below what I am trying to achieve is have the DOCUMENT_TYPE column populated with "GLOBAL" on the initial insert of this type of object. It currently does not work because hibernate complains that it could not find a getter for "docType" property. Is there a way to define a property but not have it mapped to a property in the class?




Thanks

Any suggestions? Thanks

check 'Custom SQL for create, update and delete' in the doc:
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/querysql.html#querysql-cud

Christophe

You can use a formula e.g.
<property name="MyProp" formula="MyFormula"/>