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

[Max R. A. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

     [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1908?page=all ]
     
Max Rydahl Andersen closed HHH-1908:
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    Resolution: Rejected

sorry, but hibernates classmetadata cannot return Annotation (would tie it to jdk 5) and even as important it doesn't really make sense to expose non-hibernate related information in here.

that said we have talked about allowing some construct for 3rd party (including our own tools and lucene integration) to hook structured information into hibernate's metamodel.

> 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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