Yeah, I think that would be pretty simple. The only thing I'd have to
ensure is that the XML is loaded first, which may be harder than it sounds.
File a Jira Feature Request and we'll see what we can do.
Cheers,
Clinton
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Travis <travi...@travnet.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I recently have been upgrading my iBatis 2.x projects to now use iBatis 3.
> I really appreciate the work done to create this new Mapper interface. And
> related I have started to play with having some of the simpler queries live
> as @Select annotations on the mapper interface method now instead of in the
> XML.
>
> I noticed for the @Select annotation, it is possible to have the results of
> the statement mapped to a java bean if I use the @Results annotation.
>
> Would it be possible to create a new annotation (or does one exist already
> and I just have not found it yet), where I can specify that @Select results
> should be a <resultMap> that exists in the mapper XML file ?
>
>
> For example,
>
> Consider a "country" table,
>
> [code]
> CREATE TABLE COUNTRY
> (
> ID bigint PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
> CODE varchar(2) NOT NULL,
> ISO_CODE varchar(3) NOT NULL,
> NAME varchar(2147483647),
> COUNTRY_CODE varchar(10),
> ACTIVE boolean DEFAULT TRUE NOT NULL
> );
> [/code]
>
> And the java Bean,
>
> [code]
> public class Country {
> Long id;
> String code; // 2 digit ISO country code
> String isoCode; // 3 digit ISO country code
> String name; // string name
> String countryCode; // the telephone dialing prefix (e.g. +1)
> boolean active = true;
>
> // and all the get() set() methods for these bean properties
> }
> [/code]
>
>
> And then the mapper interface,
>
> [code]
> public interface CountryDAO {
>
> /**
> * Selects all country entries.
> * Though it appears when we use the annotations, we need to specify the
> results every time ?
> */
> @Select( value = { "select * from country where active = true" })
> @Results(value = {
> @Result(property="id"),
> @Result(property="code"),
> @Result(property="isoCode", column="iso_code"),
> @Result(property="name", column="name"),
> @Result(property="countryCode", column="country_code"),
> @Result(property="active", column="active")
> })
> List<Country> getAllActive();
>
> // TODO: all these methods would also be select queries, where I would
> want the same results map as above
> Country getById(Long id);
> Country getByCode(String code);
> Country getByIsoCode(String isoCode);
> }
> [/code]
>
>
> Where, instead of the @Results annotation, which would need to be
> duplicated with its nested @Result annotations on every select method that I
> want to return the same mapping, what I would wish to have would be
> something like a
>
> @ResultMap(value="myMapperID")
>
> annotation, where the myMapperID would be the ID of a <resultMap> I have
> declared in the mapper's xml file that will be included by the
> SqlMapConfig.xml (which I have anyway to bind to this mapper interface, and
> also because I have some more complex queries declared in the xml mapper
> file too).
>
> Where in this example, I already have a
>
> [code]
> <mapper namespace="CountryDAO">
>
> <resultMap type="Country" id="countryResult">
> <result property="id" column="id"/>
> <result property="code" column="code"/>
> <result property="isoCode" column="iso_code"/>
> <result property="name" column="name"/>
> <result property="countryCode" column="country_code"/>
> <result property="active" column="active"/>
> </resultMap>
> [/code]
>
>
> So this wishful @ResultMap annotation would then make the mapper interface
> look like:
>
> [code]
> public interface CountryDAO {
>
> @Select( value = { "select * from country where active = true" })
> @ResultMap(value = "countryResult")
> List<Country> getAllActive();
>
>
> // and now other things that want to select into this map can do so,
> re-using the single map declaration
> // that is referenced in the xml.
>
> @Select( value = { "select * from country where id = #{id} })
> @ResultMap(value = "countryResult")
> Country getById(Long id);
>
>
> @Select( value = { "select * from country where code = #{code} })
> @ResultMap(value = "countryResult")
> Country getByCode(String code);
>
> @Select( value = { "select * from country where isoCode = #{isoCode} })
> @ResultMap(value = "countryResult")
> Country getByIsoCode(String isoCode);
> }
> [/code]
>
>
> I think having something like this @ResultMap annotation would be a good
> thing to have, what do you think?
>
> --
> Travis
>
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