Hi,
I'm using the JPA 2 Metamodel (generated via the Hibernate Metamodel Generator); my entities are rather simple (and not that relevant for the purpose of this thread); all my entities implement the interface (with the following method):

It would help (and make sense) if the generated classes would also implement this kind of interface, so that I can work against that instead of having to write the queries each and every time against the specific generated metamodel classes; for example, if I have:
, it would be good if the generated classes would also:
, where:
would have the following method:

simply working with a bit of generics and returning the generated id.
Is this type of approach feasible? Does it have flaws? Should I open up a JIRA to track it?
Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.
Eugen.

Hi,

I don't think that this is possible. At some stage the static metamodel needs to be populated. At runtime there is really only one instance of a given metamodel class. How would that work?

--Hardy