I am new hibernate user. I am trying to skip one of the field in the bean, from mapping to databse. But it throws error , how to do it. Is this possible to to something like this.

private String notes;
private Long authorId;
private String authorName;

// Want to skip this field from mapping to database,
private List<Page> objects;



Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.List, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(Objects)]
at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.getType(SimpleValue.java:266)
at org.hibernate.mapping.SimpleValue.isValid(SimpleValue.java:253)
at org.hibernate.mapping.Property.isValid(Property.java:185)
at org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.validate(PersistentClass.java:440)
at org.hibernate.mapping.RootClass.validate(RootClass.java:192)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validate(Configuration.java:1102)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1287)
at org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration.buildSessionFactory(AnnotationConfiguration.java:915)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:753)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:691)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.AbstractSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractSessionFactoryBean.java:211)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1390)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1359)
... 71 more

Sorry to mention that, I am using annotations.

Hi PenMa,

I think you can use @Transient annotation.
see: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... ations.pdf

book page 5 or page# 9 in adobe acrobat.

regards,
pep79.

Hi thanks for your quick reply, It works.

~PenMa