Hibernate version: 3.2.3 Annotations: 3.3.0 GA

Mapping documents:

package com.foo.bar;

import ...

@Entity(name="Product")
public class Product {
...
}

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():

ClassMetadata mData = sessionFactory.getClassMetadata("Product");

mData is always null whereas

ClassMetadata mData = sessionFactory.getClassMetadata("com.foo.bar.Product");

returns the expected ClassMetadata instance.

Info from debug session

I've debugged the app and traced the problem to:

in org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.EntityBinder:



Diagnosis

the annotatedClass is an instance of org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.XClass its name correctly shows "Product". However, calling the getName() method on that class returns, instead, the fully qualified class name of the mapped entity: "com.foo.bar.Product".

Is this a bug?

I see the need for the fully qualified class name based on how Hibernate's Session's get(Class class, Serializable id); method is implemented, but it seems to me that one could create two entries in the SessionFactoryImpl's classMetadata Map.

Thanks,

Ezra E.

I got a bit far into details. Here's the point:

we specify an entity name in our annotation mappings like so:


and expect that, as with .hbm.xml mappings this will allow us to refer to our entities by this name. According to our reading of the persistence spec it should. Hibernate's annotations, however do not seem to support this.

Any help?

unfortunately, the way the spec has been written, hbm name != @Entity.name

So @Entity.name is just an alias for queries.