On 14/03/2012 3:14 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
>
> On 3/14/2012 12:09 PM, michael keith wrote:
>> That would certainly be consistent.
>> Not as convenient, but definitely consistent :-)
>>
>> Another approach would be to go back to defining the annotation on an
>> entity (i.e. like named queries, id generators and
>> many other global things that we already define) and point to the
>> converter class.
>>
>
> That seems to me much less convenient. Unlike named queries (which
> are just strings,
> rather than objects), we don't need a class to attach converters to in
> order to
> define them outside of XML.
>
It's true, but there's something to be said for having a path to the
class from a managed class.
>> Example:
>>
>> @Converter(class=MyConverter.class autoApply=true)
>> @Entity
>> public class Employee { ... }
>>
>>
>> On 14/03/2012 2:36 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
>>> Currently @Converter has only one attribute, autoApply, although
>>> we have open issues around scoping (extending to subclasses, etc).
>>>
>>> It occurs to me that we could approach autoApply converters as we
>>> do default entity listeners, and require them to be listed in the
>>> orm.xml. If we did this, we could dispense with the @Converter
>>> annotation until such time as we needed it to further refine the
>>> semantics.
>>>
>>> Opinions? Fire away :-)
>>>
>>> -Linda
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/14/2012 10:37 AM, Gordon Yorke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 14/03/2012 1:49 PM, michael keith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14/03/2012 12:18 PM, Gordon Yorke wrote:
>>>>>> On 14/03/2012 1:11 PM, michael keith wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've uploaded a draft of the spec with the attribute
>>>>>>>>>>>> converter additions to the document
>>>>>>>>>>>> downloads area, http://java.net/projects/jpa-spec/downloads.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The converter changes can be found in sections 3.7, 10.5,
>>>>>>>>>>>> and 11.1.10-11.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The following open issues are pending:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> * Conversion of @Id and @Version.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> * Explicit listing of converters in persistence.xml file.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure I understand what
>>>>>>>>>>>> was being proposed here.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> When the archive is not scanned (it's an option in
>>>>>>>>>>> persistence.xml), the provider has no way of finding the list
>>>>>>>>>>> of converters unless the user explicitly list them in
>>>>>>>>>>> persistence.xml like it does list classes.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> OK, thanks -- so would you propose that they simply be listed
>>>>>>>>>> using the class element?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These are O/R mapping classes. Why would they be listed in
>>>>>>>>> persistence.xml? The flag to not scan for annotations
>>>>>>>>> (the xml-mapping-metadata-complete option) is in the orm.xml
>>>>>>>>> mapping file, that is where I would expect to specify
>>>>>>>>> these when not using annotations, right?
>>>>>>>> but the flag that controls scanning for persistence related
>>>>>>>> classes is in the persistence.xml file as is the list
>>>>>>>> of persistence related classes. By default the provider is not
>>>>>>>> allowed to scan for classes. Many deployments occur
>>>>>>>> without any orm.xml.
>>>>>>> There is an exclude-unlisted-classes setting in the
>>>>>>> persistence.xml file that *disables* scanning for entities,
>>>>>>> embeddables and mapped superclasses, but by default the provider
>>>>>>> is supposed to scan (when running in a container -
>>>>>>> outside the container it is not defined). This option was only
>>>>>>> added to enable a persistence unit to disable some
>>>>>>> classes from being considered even though they were in the same
>>>>>>> JAR.
>>>>>>> In any case, my point was that this is an object-relational
>>>>>>> mapping class and by design we have always tried to keep
>>>>>>> the O/R mapping concepts in the orm.xml file (when we are
>>>>>>> talking about not relying upon the annotation sensing,
>>>>>>> which I believe was the point).
>>>>>> exclude-unlisted-classes is true by default
>>>>>
>>>>> No, by default it is false (but I hope that is what you mean?)
>>>> No, the default is true : "<xsd:element
>>>> name="exclude-unlisted-classes" type="xsd:boolean" default="true"
>>>> minOccurs="0">" and portable Java SE applications must list all
>>>> managed persistence classes (section 8.2.1.6.4) .
>>>>>
>>>>>> and so by default scanning by the provider must be *enabled*.
>>>>>
>>>>> Correct.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The scanning the container performs is defined elsewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're not talking about container scanning, just provider scanning.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The only thing being discussed here is the auto scanning and how
>>>>>> the provider should be notified of the converter
>>>>>> classes when scanning is not enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. So far you have mostly just restated what I said above, so
>>>>> we're good up to this point :-)
>>>> No, we disagree on whether @Converter classes will always be
>>>> discovered. Emmanuel's point and my point is that by
>>>> default in Java SE there is no way for a provider to find the
>>>> *annotated* auto-apply Converter classes. Users should
>>>> have the option of listing the annotated Converter classes within
>>>> the list of managed classes in the persistence.xml
>>>> file.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Requiring an orm.xml file just to list the converter classes
>>>>>> seems out of place.
>>>>>
>>>>> Putting mapping information in our mapping file is exactly the
>>>>> right place, and is the way we designed it from the
>>>>> beginning. Listing them in with the entities/embeddables and
>>>>> mapped superclasses is clearly more convenient, but not
>>>>> architecturally the correct place for them to be.
>>>> I do not believe anyone is proposing listing converter classes
>>>> within other managed classes (ie .entities/embeddables
>>>> and mapped superclasses). That seems out of place to me.
>>>>> I guess we need to decide whether we want to go with architectural
>>>>> consistency or convenience. Both have merits and
>>>>> are valid arguments.
>>>> If it is architecturally inconsistent then why have the list of
>>>> annotated managed classes at all in the persistence.xml
>>>> file ? There is nothing inconsistent about continuing a
>>>> configuration pattern that is already defined in the
>>>> specification.
>>>>
>>>> For clarity, an element for converters should still be added to the
>>>> persistence-unit element in orm.xml for un-annotated
>>>> classes but I assumed that would be added later when the xsds are
>>>> updated.
>>>
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