9 Replies Latest reply on Feb 9, 2006 5:06 PM by paper

    access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs

    paper

      Will the beta2 support access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs which are promoted by seam to jsf?

      Didn't find anything in Changelogs/Feature requests.

      Greets
      Dennis

        • 1. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
          gavin.king

          I don't understand the question.

          • 2. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
            paper

            I've a entity EJB "Resource" and a class "Room" which extends Resource. In the beta1-Version I can't access properties of the Resource-part of an Room-object. The getters/setters are all public.

            Should this be possible? Is this a problem in my code?
            I thought, I'd read something about this problem ... can't find it ...

            Greetings
            Dennis

            • 3. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
              paper

              Now i do it by overriding the getters/setters of the superclass, but annotated as @Transient. Now Seam provides access to the properties of the superclass to JSF-Pages.

              Ar there other solutions?


              Greetings
              Dennis

              • 4. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
                gavin.king

                Have you read the section of the Hibernate documentation which describes the caveats of using proxies for lazy fetching?

                You need to.

                • 5. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
                  paper

                  Hmm, I cant find anything about lazy fetching, proxies in relation to inheritance. Could you point me to the chapter?


                  I can access the resourceId (by getter on subclass) in the SFSB which implements the JSF-actionMethod.
                  Without the ### marked Block in the subclass i get an:
                  Bean: org.termtimer.model.Room, property: resourceId (not accessible!)

                  To avoid the transient methods I tried:
                  - to set "strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED" in subclasses
                  - to use "@org.hibernate.annotations.Entity(polymorphism = PolymorphismType.EXPLICIT)" in the superclass
                  (also i can't see any polymorphism in this case)

                  To me it seems that seam doesnt recognize the inherited getters and so cant access the corresponding properties.

                  Thanks for any help
                  Dennis



                  @Entity
                  @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED)
                  abstract class Resource implements Serializable{
                  
                   private int resourceId;
                   private int version;
                  
                   public Resource(){
                   }
                  
                   @Version
                   public Integer getVersion() {
                   return version;
                   }
                  
                   public void setVersion(int version) {
                   this.version = version;
                   }
                  
                   @Id (generate = GeneratorType.AUTO)
                   @Column (name = "id")
                   public int getResourceId() {
                   return resourceId;
                   }
                   public void setResourceId(int resourceId) {
                   this.resourceId = resourceId;
                   }
                  
                   @Destroy @Remove
                   public void destroy() {
                   }
                  
                  }
                  
                  ______________________________________________
                  
                  @Entity
                  @Name("room")
                  @Scope(SESSION)
                  @Inheritance
                  public class Room extends Resource {
                  
                   private String roomNumber;
                  
                   public Room() {
                   super();
                   }
                  
                  
                   //### is this part needet? ######
                   @Transient
                   public int getResourceId() {
                   return super.getResourceId();
                   }
                   public void setResourceId(int resourceId) {
                   super.setResourceId(resourceId);
                   }
                   //###############################
                  
                  
                   @Length(min = 1, max=100)
                   public String getRoomNumber() {
                   return roomNumber;
                   }
                   public void setRoomNumber(String roomNumber) {
                   this.roomNumber = roomNumber;
                   }
                  
                   @Destroy @Remove
                   public void destroy() {
                   }
                  
                  }


                  • 6. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
                    gavin.king

                    http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/performance.html#performance-proxies

                    Basically, if you *lazily* retrieve an instance of a subclass, by specifying the superclass type in the getReference() method, or navigation of an association of the superclass type, you will not be able to downcast.

                    So simply re-retrieve the same instance using find(), and you will have an instance of the subclass.

                    • 7. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
                      paper

                      Thanks for the fast reply.
                      I'm quite new to JBoss and related things and hope my questions aren't annoying.
                      The problem isn't related to casting I guess, just in accessing inherited parts.

                      I use:

                      rooms = (List<Room>) em.createQuery("from Room").getResultList();



                      Form the Entity-Manager-Reference about "getResultList()":
                      A query is usually executed by invoking getResultList(). This method loads the resulting instances of the query completly into memory.

                      This doesn't mean there aren't used proxies. I can't use find here, but what can I do?


                      Thanks
                      Dennis




                      In the SFSB I've:
                      @DataModel
                       private List<Room> rooms;


                      and in the Facelet:
                      <h:dataTable value="#{rooms}" var="theroom" rendered="#{not empty rooms}">
                      <h:column>
                      <f:facet name="header">roomNumber</f:facet>
                      #{theroom.roomNumber}
                      </h:column>
                      <h:column>
                      <f:facet name="header">resourceId</f:facet>
                      #{theroom.resourceId}
                      </h:column>
                      <h:column>
                      <f:facet name="header">Action</f:facet>
                      <h:commandLink action="#{RoomAction.deleteRoom}">delete</h:commandLink> 
                      <h:commandLink action="#{RoomAction.editRoom}">edit</h:commandLink>
                      </h:column>
                      </h:dataTable>


                      • 8. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
                        gavin.king

                        The you have done something else wrong. A query does not return proxies. All objects should be instances of Room.

                        • 9. Re: access to inherited properties of entity-ejbs
                          paper

                          Ehm, yes. Lookes like.

                          now i've tested to set the annotations

                          @Name("resource")
                          @Scope(SESSION)
                          

                          to the superclass "Ressource"

                          and to use the seam propagation to jsf by
                          #{room.resourceId}
                          in the edit-jsf (which works without accessing the resourceId).

                          All with the same conclusion:
                          An Error Occurred:
                          /roomedit.xhtml @18,81 value="#{room.resourceId}": Bean: org.termtimer.model.Room, property: resourceId (not accessible!)


                          No way ...
                          I think I'll use the ugly transient methods ...

                          thankful for any help
                          Dennis

                          Beside: I'm using JBoss 4.0.3RC1 and Seam 1 beta1