Endless Loop when calling toString for bidirectional associa

afattahi · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:56 am **Posts:** 24

Hi,

version: hibernatetools-3.1.0.beta5

I am using the generated toString method, but it seems that generated code falls in a loop for bidirectional associations:
as a sample imagine account and activity entities

Code:

<class name="Account">
        <id name="id" column="Account_Id" type="long">
            <generator class="increment"/>
        </id>
        <set name="activity" inverse="true" >
            <key column="Account_Id"/>
            <one-to-many class="Activity"/>
        </set>
    </class>
**********************
<class name="Activity">
    <id name="id" column="Activity_Id" type="long">
         <generator class="increment"/>
      </id>
      <many-to-one name="account" unique="false"
                 not-null="false" class="Account"
            column="Account_Id" foreign-key="FK_Activity_Account"/>
</class>

Then the generated toStrings are:

Code:

Account 
 toString()
  {
  (1)buffer.append("activity").append("='").append(getActivity()).append("'    ");
  }

********************
Acitivity{
 tostring()
{
   (2)buffer.append("account").append("='").append(getAccount()).append("' ");
}

Line (1) and (2) are the lines which keep calling each other when I try to write Account Entity.

Same goes with hascode() method.

Please help

Regards,
Alireza Fattahi

max · **Posted:** Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:15 am

the tools does not generate any toString unless you specify meta attributes with use-in-tostring.

so the tools did should generate that tostring based on what you showed me. (and if you for some reason has use-in-tostring specified at a higher level and thus have it inherited then you should not do that if you want to bump into recursiveness.

afattahi · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:56 am **Posts:** 24

Dear Max,

Yes, I have put to-string meta at the class level (just above the class tag)

But I did not get your idea! Should I put use-in-tostring for each property of the class individually, so if the class has 10 properties I should copy and paste in 10 times!
Is there any way that I can manage it.

Regards,
Alireza Fattahi

max · **Posted:** Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:44 am

well, how do you want me to decide/figure out which of your properties should not be included ?

afattahi · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:56 am **Posts:** 24

Hi,

Can we put to-string for a class and define which properties must NOT be considered in generated to-string method?

Regards,
Alireza Fattahi

max · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:18 am

no, not with the current functionallity.