[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HB-489) Let the user specify wether inherit is default false or true

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        Key: HB-489
    Summary: Let the user specify wether inherit is default false or true
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Open
   Priority: Major

    Project: Hibernate2
 Components: 
             toolset

   Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
   Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen

    Created: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 6:17 AM
    Updated: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 6:17 AM

Description:
"More and more people" reports that the default inherit strategy for <meta> sometimes conflict with their intentions. e.g. because all meta is inherited by default will meta="implements" in a class be applied to all nested <component> etc.

The current workaround is to set inherit="false" on the relevant <meta>'s, but this get "hairy" when you got many classes with components - it forces you to add the same <meta> tag to each and every part of the hbm file....and that is exactly the opposite on what inherit was intended for. meta inheritance was for reducing the need to duplicate the same information again and again.

My suggestion is to introduce a default-meta-inherit attribute on the <hibernate-mapping> tag. This flag would default to "true" (because that is the current default. If set to "false" then inheritance is disabled on <meta>, unless explicitly stated otherwise.




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