[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-1908) ClassMetadata new method: List<Annotation> getPropertyAnnotations(String propName)

[Nigel W. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

ClassMetadata new method: List<Annotation> getPropertyAnnotations(String propName)
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         Key: HHH-1908
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1908
     Project: Hibernate3
        Type: New Feature

 Environment: All
    Reporter: Nigel White


I'm beginning to use org.hibernate.metadata.ClassMetadata

It's very useful having all the information about a persistent class available.

There is still quite a lot of information locked up in the class that isn't accessible through ClassMetadata.

Of course I have my own introspection utilities which examine our persistent classes, so that we can do a lot of automated stuff, but it would be good if we didn't need to - if we could rely on Hibernate's metedata.

So what I'm thinking of is a way of returning all the annotations that were applied either to a Field, or that Field's getter.

[code]
List<Annotation> getPropertyAnnotations(String propName);

List<Annotation>[] getPropertiesAnnotations();
[/code]

For instance, we have an annotation against a Field that says that Field is the description for that entity (eg, country name, customer name etc) that would be displayed in a combobox/select. We have other annotations too, so we use our own introspection scheme.

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