Hi all,
I am quite new to Hibernate and cannot find an answer to this question:

I have a baseclass B and a class C which inherits from B and extends B. I have chosen to store these classes in one table using a discriminator.
I want to use a criteria query to retrieve all objects of class B or C which match certain conditions (these conditions do not require the object to be of class C). So I use B as CriteriaClass.
But when I get the result list, I get a list of instances of B (which seems clear, because I only queried for B).
How can I get at least the information whether my objects in the list have been saved as B or C?

Thanks a lot,
Martin

You might want to do some more validation to see if it downcasts for you properly. I think it might.

If I do:



and then:


and C is a subclass (joined subclass in my case) then it will load all the way down to C even if I only asked for a B.