[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-1749) Convert discriminator field value into class name or class when discriminator field purposedly returned in query

[Ignat Z. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

Convert discriminator field value into class name or class when discriminator field purposedly returned in query
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         Key: HHH-1749
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1749
     Project: Hibernate3
        Type: Improvement

    Versions: 3.0.5    
 Environment: Win XP SP2, JDK 1.5.0_05, Hibernate 3.0.5
    Reporter: Ignat Zapolsky


It is possible to obtain discriminator field by specifying it in query, it is possible to use it since hibernate automatically replaces entity.class with discriminator column and converts class into associated discriminator value. But retreival of such field is useless since user cannot obtain .class from returned discriminator value and Hibernate expects .class, not discriminator in queries.

Sample query : select cat.class from my.Cat as cat where ...

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