[Wayne Kidd]

I am using mysql and I want to have a boolean field in a table. There is not really such a field type in the database. of course. However, hibernate can manage either a char field (y/n or t/f) or a little int (0/1). My problem is that since the field looks like (in my case) a tiny int, the generation from the DBBrowser does not give me the opportunity to change how the xml or the generated classes come out. What can I do?

Thanks
Wayne

[Riyad Kalla]

Wayne, I’ve asked Jeff to have a look at this as we are aware of the num -> num mapping, he did mention that enhancements in the future releases will allow customizations for this, but I’m hoping he can provide a good workaround for you temporarily.

[snpe]

edit hbm.xml direct

[support-jeff]

snpe is spot on. Cannot do much better. Otherwise wait for enhancements

[Wayne Kidd]

That is fine. The thing I should let you know is that the generated base class also needs editing and that is kind of a problem since the generated comments say don’t change it. More importantly, this will cause regeneration to fail (puts back the old problems). You can see that this is an problem that keeps on giving.

Wayne

[snpe]

You will edit hbm.xml file with every tools – hibernate is complex and development is quick and no one tools follow this – regenerate isn’t problem, because entity tables change aren’t often
ddl to hbm mapping is only first step

regards

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