Isn't it called an entity name in the JPA spec?

thanks,
-marina

Pinaki Poddar wrote:
> Persistent Java classes when used in Query use an alias (which is, be
> deafult, the unqualified name of the Java class). However, the alias is
> known to the runtime once the Java class is loaded in to JVM. When the
> very first JPA operation is a query and the persistence unit does not
> explictly declare all the persistent classes, the runtime is not yet
> aware of/registered the aliases. Hence the error.
> possible resolution:
> a) declare the persistent classes in <class> tag of persistence.xml
> b) load the class before using it -- e.g. call
> Class.forName("a.b.c.MyClass")
> 
>  
>  
> 
> 
> Pinaki Poddar
> BEA Systems
> 415.402.7317  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: saidulu chitipolu [mailto:csai_india@yahoo.co.in] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:23 PM
> To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Open JPA error-Could not locate metadata for the class using
> alias 
> 
> Hi,
>   
>   I am trying to run standalone application access the database using
> spring ,openjpa.
>   
>   part of code in main method
>   
>   EntityManagerFactory factory =
> Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("tsf");
>         EntityManager em =  factory.createEntityManager();
> 
>         System.out.println("------///// "+em);      
>        
>           
>         Query q = em.createQuery("select m from AbstractItemEntity m");
>         List<AbstractItemEntity> absEntity=q.getResultList();
>   
>   facing the problem at 
>         Query q = em.createQuery("select m from AbstractItemEntity m");
>   
>   we have persistance.xml and orm files.
>   
>   Log is as like below
>   your earliest suggetions are valuable
>   
>   110  INFO   [main] openjpa.Runtime - Starting OpenJPA 0.9.6-incubating
>   422  INFO   [main] openjpa.jdbc.JDBC - Using dictionary class
> "org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.OracleDictionary".
>   766  INFO   [main] openjpa.MetaData - Found 10 classes with metadata
> in 31 milliseconds.
>   ------///// org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerImpl@1c8b24d
>   Exception in thread "main" <4|true|0.9.6-incubating>
> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: Could not locate
> metadata for the class using alias "AbstractItemEntity". Registered
> alias mappings: "{AbstractItemEntity=null}"
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.meta.MetaDataRepository.getMetaData(MetaDataRepositor
> y.java:343)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder.getClassMetaData(JP
> QLExpressionBuilder.java:164)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder.resolveClassMetaDat
> a(JPQLExpressionBuilder.java:142)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder.getCandidateMetaDat
> a(JPQLExpressionBuilder.java:211)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder.getCandidateMetaDat
> a(JPQLExpressionBuilder.java:181)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder.getCandidateType(JP
> QLExpressionBuilder.java:174)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder.access$500(JPQLExpr
> essionBuilder.java:61)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLExpressionBuilder$ParsedJPQL.populate
> (JPQLExpressionBuilder.java:1657)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.jpql.JPQLParser.populate(JPQLParser.java:52)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.ExpressionStoreQuery.populateFromCompilation(E
> xpressionStoreQuery.java:145)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.newCompilation(QueryImpl.java:642)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.compilationFromCache(QueryImpl.java:
> 623)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.compileForCompilation(QueryImpl.java
> :589)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.compileForExecutor(QueryImpl.java:65
> 1)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.QueryImpl.getOperation(QueryImpl.java:1464)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingQuery.getOperation(DelegatingQuery.j
> ava:120)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.QueryImpl.execute(QueryImpl.java:202)
>       at
> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.QueryImpl.getResultList(QueryImpl.java:25
> 1)
>       at com.symcor.sis.tecp.dao.ExecuteDB.main(ExecuteDB.java:35)
>   
>   
>        
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