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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:34:25 +0800
From: "Patrick Linskey" <plinskey@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: problem enhancing embeddable class
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> it's in the spec, but anyway my question is:  is there a way to avoid
> listing every class in persistence.xml? or, instead, a way to indicate
> the package? i feel it's kind of like going against "don't repeat
> yourself", considering all these classes are already annotated.

You can tell OpenJPA to look around for persistent classes like so:

    <property name="openjpa.MetaDataFactory"
value="ClasspathScan=build;entities.jar"/>

This will tell OpenJPA to scan the build and entities.jar classpath
elements for entities, mapped superclasses, and embedded types. This
is documented briefly at
http://openjpa.apache.org/docs/latest/manual/manual.html#ref_guide_meta_factory

-Patrick

On Dec 17, 2007 12:00 AM, francisco treacy <francisco.treacy@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i migrated my application from hibernate jpa to openjpa a couple of
> weeks ago, and except for an issue with sublists the integration was
> seamless.
>
> i later changed my DI framework (spring to guice) and in some of those
> changes i started having "Could not locate metadata for the class
> using alias... " errors. it was then that i found out i had to list
> all my entities in persistence.xml.
> i don't get why it didn't happen before, or with hibernate. i know
> it's in the spec, but anyway my question is:  is there a way to avoid
> listing every class in persistence.xml? or, instead, a way to indicate
> the package? i feel it's kind of like going against "don't repeat
> yourself", considering all these classes are already annotated.
>
> but my real problem comes when i want to create (ddd) value objects.
> these don't have identity and as such, should be "embedded" to
> entities. i followed this post
> http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2007/09/domain-modeling-with-jpa-gotchas-part-2.html.
>
> for instance, my Doctor entity has an Address. i'm using the
> @Embeddable annotation in the Address class and @Entity in Doctor,
> which has an @Embedded Address attribute.
>
> if i don't put <class>test.domain.Address</class> in the
> persistence.xml file, i get a
> <openjpa-1.0.1-r420667:592145 nonfatal user error>
> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: One or more of the
> types in [(here lots classes...)] have relations to other unenhanced
> types that were not specified. These unspecified types are: [class
> test.domain.Address]
>
> if i do, i get a
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>      at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.fromBackingFieldName(PCEnhancer.java:3680)
>      at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.replaceAndValidateFieldAccess(PCEnhancer.java:858)
>      at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.replaceAndValidateFieldAccess(PCEnhancer.java:807)
> (...)
>
> it should work like that, since enhancement is optional. but i decided
> trying to enhance all entities by executing the ant task (and not
> listing Address in persistence.xml), i get a
> <openjpa-1.0.1-r420667:592145 fatal user error>
> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.ArgumentException: The type "class
> test.domain.Address" has not been enhanced.
>
> if i do list it, while executing the ant task i get a
>      [java] Exception in thread "main" <openjpa-1.0.1-r420667:592145
> nonfatal general error> org.apache.openjpa.util.GeneralException: An
> error occurred while enhancing test.domain.Address. Exception message:
> null
>      [java]     at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.run(PCEnhancer.java:470)
>      [java]     at org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PCEnhancer.run(PCEnhancer.java:4349)
>
>
> any ideas? what am i doing wrong?
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> francisco
>



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