Hi,

Is there a way to tell Hibernate to return an (empty) object instead of null if all the object's properties are null?

Thanks,

--steve

Forgot to mention that the getter retrieves an associated object belonging to a different class.

Thank you again,
--steve

Huh? Maybe post some code so we can see what you are asking.

public class MgmtInfo implements Serializable {

/** nullable persistent field */
private com.device.NeUsersAndPasswords neUsersAndPasswords;
.........................................

public com.device.NeUsersAndPasswords getNeUsersAndPasswords() {
return this.neUsersAndPasswords;
}

} // end class

The question, basically is:

How can I make getNeUsersAndPasswords() to return an object instead of null if the object is not found in the database ?

Thx,

--steve p.

public class MgmtInfo implements Serializable {

/** nullable persistent field */
private com.device.NeUsersAndPasswords neUsersAndPasswords;
.........................................

public com.device.NeUsersAndPasswords getNeUsersAndPasswords() {
return this.neUsersAndPasswords;
}

} // end class

The question, basically is:

How can I make getNeUsersAndPasswords() to return an object instead of null if the object is not found in the database ?

Thx,

--steve p.

Make seprate geter and setter for application and separate getter and setter for hibernate. So hibernate will use it's separate setter to set state from database and in application level getter you can put additional business logic.

In apllication level getter:



Thanks,

Giedrius

I will sugest to use in this case NullObject pattern. So your getter always returns something. Because checks for null's can be anoying.

I agree. I hoped that Hibernate could be instructed to automatically return an (empty) instance of the return type class of the getter, instead of returning null and then me having to check for nulls.

Hibernate can do it as well but then you need CustomeType for that.

I see. Thanks!

--steve