Hi,

I have a class containing a string attribute state and I want this attribute to be mapped in another table than the one of this class.

Example:
Class A
id : float
state : string

Table A
id
state

Table B
id
name

My problem comes from the fact that there is no class State in the app, but I have to use the table B which contains possible values for state name.

I want the attribute state of the class A mapped to the attribute state of the table A but this last one must be a foreign key referencing name in table B.

What is the mapping to use for that?

Vlad

I guess a component mapping is not appropriate since there is no class referenced by the state attribute in the object model and for the one-to-one, that is the same?

Vlad

This is not really supported. You could try mapping it as a private Set, with a <element> refering to your associated table, then add a public get/set which will delegate to the first element of the set.

This will probably get easier in future versions with the <join> element.