Hello,
It is possible to create a list of non entities but the entire list will be written to the database as a serialized object. Although TopLink Essentials has support for writing this relationship to a table it has yet to be exposed through the Java Persistence APIs. You could make use of a Session Customizer to add the mapping type (DirectCollectionMapping) to the TopLink meta-data but in the shortterm it would be easier for you to wrap the data within an Entity.
--Gordon
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Subject: basic jpa collection question
I've been searching for this and looking in the spec but I don't see the answer.
I know that you can have an entity with persistent field or property of type enum or Integer. Is it possible to specify a Collection(set or list) of something like Set<Enumtype> or Set<Integer>? And if so could you give an example. Or will I need to create an entity wrapper for that?
Thanks in advance.
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