I need to know if it's possible to add some attributes and behaviours to some POJO JPA entity (using hibernate provider) by extending it, and then to make entityManager to return extended objects instead of just pojo entitys, like the following examples:
POJO JPA Entity Class
@Entity
@Table("test")
public class Test implements Serializable {
}
Extended Class
public class ExtendedTest extends Test {
...
}
Fetching Extended Class's objects
List<ExtendedTest> extendedList = entityManager.createNamedQuery("ExtendedTest.findByFoo").setParameter("foo", "bar").getResultList();
The other possible way i'm assessing is extending funcionality with a composite entity and delegating all setters and getters, but this could mean a lot of work with huge tables:
public class ExtendedTest2 {
private Test test;
public ExtendedTest2(Test test) {
this.test = test;
}
public getFoo() {
return test.getFoo();
}
public getBar() {
return test.getBar();
}
...
}
Any suggestions will be very appreciated.
Entity classes can extend non-entity classes, and non-entity classes can extend entity classes. Entity classes can be both abstract and concrete.
You can have as many of them as you want.
Inheritance Strategies Inheritance is the core concept of object oriented language, therefore we can use inheritance relationships or strategies between entities. JPA support three types of inheritance strategies such as SINGLE_TABLE, JOINED_TABLE, and TABLE_PER_CONCRETE_CLASS.
@Id annotation is the JPA is used for making specific variable primary key.
Using @Inheritance
@Entity
@Table(name="TEST")
@Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE)
public class Test {
...
}
@Entity
public class ExtendedTest
extends Test {
...
}
or @MappedSuperclass
@MappedSuperclass
public class Test {
...
}
@Entity
public class ExtendedTest
extends Test {
...
}
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