I am new to hibernate. I would like to know if it is possible to do the following.

How to force reverse engineer to generate a List instead of a HashSet? I need the list to be ordered. I have an index column. I see that myclipse has a list.hbm.vm template but it does not seem to generate a List.

How to add a add method to a pojo class?

Basically I would like to generate the following.

void setItems(List items);

List getItems();

void addItem(Item item);


Steve

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well the templates does not do the reverse engineering, it just generates code based on the Configuration.

So this would need some additional logic in the current reverse engineering ...care to submit a patch ? :)

p.s. myeclipse uses a forked/old version of hibernate tools.

Sure I would not mind submitting a patch. Any guidance on developement would greatly be appreciated. I have a lot of classes and it would probably be worth the effort.
I am really green to hibernate. I am looking to migrate from Castor.

Steve

well it would require you got pretty good into hibernate.

Things that would need to be done:

Add unittests for the various models you want to support and see them fail ;)

Fix JDBCBinder so it will recognize which associations/foreign-keys that will be list's and what column should be used as the list-index (btw. if you do this you could just as well implement Map support too - but lets do that in the next rev ;)

JDBCBinder should use ReverseEngineeringStrategy to identify the type of collection and which column that should be used for the index/map-key.

Then you would need to check that list.hbm.ftl generates the correct code for hbm.xml and eventually also check the annotations generation to see if that generates the apropriate code.

At this point you would be able to do everything programmatically, but to be really complete it should be possible to control in reveng.xml, probably by allowing for a <list>/<map> element under foreign-key with info about which column is the index. This is done in OverrideBinder/OverrideRepository.

Let me know.