I'm trying to get the codegen tool to include the recipientList member in the toString() method. My mapping looks like this

<list name="recipientList" table="recipient_list">
<key column="message_id" />
<index column="position"/>
<element column="number" type="string" length="20" />
<meta attribute="use-in-tostring">true</meta>
</list>

Codegen works OK and creates the toString() method correctly but Schemaexport fails with:

[schemaexport] BUILD FAILED: file:C:/Projects/.../build.xml:45: Schema text failed: net.sf.hibernate.MappingException: invalid mapping

If I remove the meta attribribute scemaexport works.

Hib version 2.1.4
MySql 4.0.18

Check the DTD for the list, eg, here it the section;


See the meta tag is first. Move your meta tag to the top and try again.

That's fixed it.

Many thanks David.

I wonder why this doesn't cause a problem for codegen?

hbm2java does not (currently) do a validating parse of the XML. I think thats reasonable as hibernate will catch the issues when you test the mapping.