Hello all
In my user-type code I need to know the name of the property which is mapped using this user-type.
I.E. :
<property name="123" column="id" >
<type name="MyUserType"/>
</property>

In MyUserType code I need to access the string "123".
Note that this is the property name and not the SQL field name.

Is this possible ?

Thank you !

Elad

Hi,

you have to call the corresponding



bye,
nicola[/code]

Thank you for your reply !
Actually, in my user-type code, I do not know that this object will have a property name "123".

My user-type is being used by more than 1 class mapping.
However - in every class mapping it is used in a different property :

<class name="bar"
...
<property name="123" column="id" >
<type name="MyUserType"/>
</property>
...
</class>

<class name="foo"
...
<property name="321" column="other_id" >
<type name="MyUserType"/>
</property>
...
</class>

But inside my code I need to know the property name (123 / 321) .

I hope it is more clear now ...

Thank you !

Elad

Elad,

I don't think you can do it, unless you use a ParameterizedType and specify the property name for each parameter (redundant, painful).

I entered a feature request:

http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... se/HHH-804

which was sadly rejected. The sad part is not that it was rejected, but that the feature which Gavin gave as a replacement does not look like it will solve the problem at all.

Seems like a very natural request to me. If a class is performing a custom data conversion, then it should have access at runtime to the meta-information that might be needed to properly perform the conversion.

Perhaps it would help if more people request the feature ;)

regards,

joe

Hi jpanico
I have posted a commnet on the JIRA page. I hope Gavin will read it.


Thank you for replying ! Now I know I am not missing anything :)

Elad