I've been playing around with the Interceptor interface, and first off just let me say this - nice job. I see a lot of poorly designed interfaces and this one is sweet.

Enough with the buttering up. Here is my question. Let's say that during the onLoad method I pulled some needed data from the "state" array, and then replaced that value with null. AND, I also nulled out the corresponding index in the propertyNames and types arrays. Would this result in Hibernate skipping over this data value (in essence "deleting" it from the data set) or would some type of exception be thrown?

Jonathan House

It depends upon the return value of the method. If you change the state array, you are supposed to return true, so that Hibernate knows to use the altered state.

So if I did null out a specific index of the state, propertyNames and types arrays and then returned a "true", indicating that the arrays had been modified, would Hibernate simply ignore the now nulled state, name and type trio?[/code]

no, it would update the in-memory and database state