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 Post subject: Returning a subclass as a superclass.
PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:09 am 
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Hi,

I'm posting this question on the general Hibernate forum to ensure best visibility.

I have a class A and a subclass B that extends A.

From our business model point of view, A is the "light" version of B, containing only some basic informations ; whereas B is a more complete definition of our concept. Note that both are valid entities on their own, and A and B instances can be saved without any business logic problem.

Fact is that sometimes, on "summary screen" use cases of our application, we need to display all A properties ONLY of all A AND B's instances.

And we don't want Hibernate to return B's specific properties but only A's properties of B's instances.

To express it in HQL, in a completely invented syntax : 'from B casted as A"

I didn't found the way to do this simply.

So all suggestions are highly welcomed ! :)

Thanks in advance,

sne.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:03 am 
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Hi,

this is really a newbie question! As defined in object-oriented programming you everytime have access to all bass-class properties, even if your object is of type B:

Best regards,
Thomas


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:01 am 
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The key phrase in my question is
"And we don't want Hibernate to return B's specific properties but only A's properties of B's instances"

The main aspect here (and I think I should have stressed it) is for 'performance purpose'.

A has 3 fields. B have 6 more (including long String and references to others entities).

Why should I fetch 6 (* number of instances returned) uninteresting fields for my use case from the db if I don't need them ?

Hence my question ! ;)


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:54 am 
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I'm interisting on this topic too:

official reference (chapter 14: hql par:14.5 select) report 2 solutions:
you can use select clause to pick properties in you interest, so queries return multiple objects and/or properties as an array of type Object[].
Code:
select s.firstName, s.lastName from Student s


or for maintain typesafe you can use:
Code:
select new Student(s.firstName, s.lastName) from Student s

if there is an appropriate constructor in Student class

Code:
class Student
    {
     public Student(String, String){ ...}
    }

in this way you have a Student object(s)partially inizialized.

note that if your query changes at runtime and you get also birthdate of Student, you must have another constructor.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:40 pm 
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Ha, well, I was expecting this answer...
I was temptated by the "typesafe" one, but didn't found it as elegant as that.

So, last call to the 'Hibernate Team' : what's your advice on that matter ? :)


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