Will provision ever be made for this type of thing or is there just not
enough demand for this type of functionality?
Kenneth Clark
Developer / Analyst
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Gordon Yorke wrote:
> Hello All,
> There is no support in the JPA Specification for pluggable Generation types. Only the 4 predefined types : TABLE, SEQUENCE, IDENTITY, AUTO which represent popular database sequencing methods.
> --Gordon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: legolas wood [mailto:legolas.w_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:16 AM
> To: users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
> Subject: Re: Entity auto generated id
>
>
> Baker, Brad (Contr) wrote:
>
>> This seems like a Data Base question. Not a glassfish dev question.
>>
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>> MS SQL will do auto gen GUIDs as PKs.
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>> -Brad
>>
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>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Kenneth Clark [mailto:kenneth_at_rabiddog.co.za]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:43 AM
>> To: users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>> Subject: Re: Entity auto generated id
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this even possible? Please help here. Been sitting on this the whole
>> day and I just can't find docs on it. Should I rather post this in the
>> forum?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Kenneth Clark
>> Developer / Analyst
>>
>> Rabid Dog Laboratories (tm)
>> Putting the art back into development
>>
>> tel: +27 11 475 7409
>> mobile: +27 82 500 5090
>> e-mail: kenneth_at_rabiddog.co.za
>> website: http://www.rabiddog.co.za/
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenneth Clark wrote:
>>
>> This might be a really weird question so please forgive me
>>
>> Is there anyway to auto generate a unique ID using a custom routine for
>> the record?
>>
>> i.e.: I would like to use a GUID as the PK value for an entity. Is this
>> possible?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>
> Kenneth , What is your persistence mechanism ?
> in case that you are using EJB3 you can have your own generator to generate your entity IDs.
> in case that you are using plain JDBC you can simply generate the ID and put it into the column when you insert a row into database.
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