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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:03:00 +0200
From: "Christophe Lombart" <christophe.lombart@gmail.com>
To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org
Subject: Re: Using Collections - OCM
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The property discriminator contains the classname. Maybe the some collection
descriptor are not using it correctly.
If you have no time, I will check this week-end otherwise if you found
something, you can send us a patch (in jira).

Thanks,
Christophe

On 10/26/07, Kaizer <Kaizers@mastek.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks a lot! I am using the discriminator approach. In fact i was
> thinking
> of writing my own CollectionConverter wherein I would save the object by
> taking the class of the item being stored rather than from the
> "elementClassName" attribute. But the problem would be that while
> retrieving
> the object, I wouldnt have the class name to instantiate.
> Thanks again!
>
> Regards
> Kaizer
>
>
>
> Christophe Lombart wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the delay I was very busy this week.
> >
> > Which inheritance strategy are you using ? Are you using the a
> > discriminator
> > or a different node type per Class ?
> >
> > There are 2 possibilities :
> >
> > 1/ Using a different node type per class in the hierarchy, here is a
> > example
> > from the unit test. The implement-descriptor is not mandatory.
> >
> > <class-descriptor
> > className="
> org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.testmodel.inheritance.impl.FolderImpl"
> > jcrType="ocm:folderimpl"
> >
> > extend="
> org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.testmodel.inheritance.impl.CmsObjectImpl"
> > discriminator="false"  >
> >   <implement-descriptor
> > interfaceName="org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.testmodel.interfaces.Folder"
> > />
> >    <collection-descriptor fieldName="children" proxy="true"
> > autoUpdate="false"
> >
> > elementClassName="
> org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.testmodel.inheritance.impl.CmsObjectImpl"
> >
> > collectionConverter="
> org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.manager.collectionconverter.impl.NTCollectionConverterImpl
> "
> > />
> > </class-descriptor >
> >
> >
> > 2/ Using a discriminator (discriminator =true). It  can be used when you
> > are
> > using the same node type for the complete class hierarchy. There is no
> > unit
> > tests on collection-descriptor with a discriminator. So, I will write a
> > new
> > unit test for this use cases and I will give some feedback. So maybe
> there
> > are some bug for this kind of situation.
> >
> > Again sorry for the delay.
> >
> > br,
> > Christophe
> >
> > On 10/24/07, Kaizer <Kaizers@mastek.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a class A which has a collection of objects of type B. I have
> made
> >> the corresponding definitions in the mapping xml. However, If i create
> a
> >> class C which extends B and save objects of type C in the list and then
> >> try
> >> to retrieve them, I always get an instance of B as the
> >> ObjectConverterImpl
> >> always creates a new instance of the "elementClassName" defined in the
> >> mapping (which would be B in this case). How can i achieve the storage
> >> and
> >> retrieval in this scenario?Would I require a custom
> CollectionConverter?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Kaizer
> >> --
> >> View this message in context:
> >> http://www.nabble.com/Using-Collections---OCM-tf4683858.html#a13384206
> >> Sent from the Jackrabbit - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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>
>

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