Our application is composed of a super class that all of persistent classes inherit from.

Ex:
public abstract class SuperClass implements Lifecycle {


public long getId() {
return this.id;
}
//...rest of code
}

Ex: Subclass
public class SubClass extends SuperClass{

/**
* @hibernate.property
* column="id"
*/
public long getId() {
return super.getId();
}

//...class definition goes here
}

What we are trying to accomplish is to tag these classes with xdoclet to automate the process of file generation. The challenge that I am running into is that I have to override the method getId in the subclass in order for the id to be generated in the mapping file.

We want to avoid this altogether in the subclass.

Does anyone know of a way to not have to override the method getId in the subclass and at the same time be able to generate the id in the mapping document.

Keep in mind that for all the documents in our application the id generation would look like this:

<id
name="id"
column="id"
type="long"
>
<generator class="native">
</generator>
</id>

This is how it was designed from the ground up so we're stuck with it whether it is architecturally right or wrong.

Any help in this subject would be greatly appreciated since we are under a pretty tight deadline.

Thanks in advance.

Just move the hibernate.id tags to your abstract class where you define getId and setId. Remove the getId and setId from your child class.

Thanks
Shishir

Hi,

I have the same problem here where I have a SuperClass A which contains the id property and SubClass B which inherits from A. An example would be:

public class B {
private Long id;

/*
* @hibernate.id generator-class="native" type="long" column="id"
* @return
*/
public Long getId() {
return id;
}

....
....
}

/**
* @hibernate.class
*/
public class A extends B {
....
....
}

If I do this, I get a hibernatedoclet compilation error saying that Class A misses the ID property. Am I doing this correctly? Is there more I have to do in order to get hibernate to parse through the superclass to find the ID field?


Help is much appreciated!

Paul

you don't need this for class A

were you able to find a solution for this? i too, have a "Persistent.java" class.

I have something such as a User object that extends the Persistent class. User will have its own table with its own ID key in the table called "u_id"