Is it possible to combine an Account with the Entity that it maps to?

[noamichael]

Hey guys, I have a quick question. Is it possible to, instead of mapping a POJO Account object to an entity, create a stane-alone entity which acts as an account? It seems less redundant when working with JPA.

-Michael

[pcraveiro]

Hey Michael,

    We do support the following mapping. Suppose you have a custom Account type as follows:

public class MyUser extends AbstractIdentityType implements Account {

    @AttributeProperty
    private Person person;

    // getter and setter
}

    Here, Person is a reference to a specific entity. Not necessarily managed by PicketLink, but any entity you want to have a reference to.

    Now, take a look at the entity used to map the MyUser account type:

@Entity
@IdentityManaged(MyUser.class)
public class MyUserTypeEntity extends IdentityTypeEntity {

     @OneToOne (cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
     @AttributeValue
     private Person person;

     // getter and setter
}

    With that, every time you load a MyUser from your identity store, a Person instance will be available. The same thing when storing MyUser and setting a Person. It will be automatically persisted.

    You can check a working example from the PicketLink AngularJS Quickstart.

Regards.

[noamichael]

Thank you for the example; it was a mapping I would have never thought of myself! I'll will implement it today and see how it works.

-Michael