Re: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a string

[Brad C. <bra...@wo...>]

actually i meant (2) - but u r right about circular references.  so i will
fall back to (1), and since the uid is currently printed, u would be able to
visually link things up.

i was just looking at the XMLDatabinder source and cannot see a way to tell
if a proxy or collection is initialised.

brad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin King" <ga...@ap...>
To: "Brad Clow" <bra...@wo...>
Cc: "hibernate list" <hib...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a
string


>
> > 2. entities recursively printed.
>
> Do you mean that
>
> 1. associated objects get automatically bound to the same document, or
> 2. their representation is nested inside the parent object?
>
> If (1), thats probably a wothwhile idea.....it might even be worth
> overloading the semantics of cascade="all" to automatically bind only
> lifecycle objects. (This would save problems of binding the whole
universe.)
>
> If (2), that can be accomplished with a stylesheet, but its actually not
> desirable since you don't know what to do with circular/shared references.
>
> Anyway, I think you mean (1) ... which is cool
>
>