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[jpa-spec users] [jsr338-experts] Re: mapping conversion

From: michael keith <michael.keith_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:49:52 -0500

On 12/01/2012 1:04 PM, Pinaki Poddar wrote:
> 1. On the queries section, it may be worthwhile to mention that the binding
> parameters or projected terms referring to a converted attribute are of
> type<X> i.e. the type of the attribute.
Sure, this feature will need some coverage in the queries section,
including parameter binding.
> 2. It may be useful to allow static method of a "converter" class be
> invoked for conversion. Typical conversion (e.g. boolean to integer) can
> then be handled more centrally/uniformly.
Why would it need to be static? Applications can instantiate their own
concrete class and use it for conversion of anything they want if they
need to do so.