OK, I'll make sure Hibernate also treats an empty array element as equivalent to null as well.
Vlad, thanks for correcting the documentation. On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > The docs says: > > When it comes to arrays, there is quite a difference between Java arrays > and relational database array types (e.g. VARRAY, ARRAY). First, not all > database systems implement the SQL-99 ARRAY type, and, for this reason, > Hibernate doesn’t support native database array types. Second, Java arrays > are relevant for basic types only since storing multiple embeddables or > entities should always be done using the Java Collection API. > > I guess the "Second, Java arrays ..." part is indeed a little bit > misleading. > > I created the following issue: > > https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-11891 > > Is it a problem if I link the docs to my blog post about how to support > arrays of basic types? > > https://vladmihalcea.com/2017/06/21/how-to-map-java-and-sql- > arrays-with-jpa-and-hibernate/ > > Thanks, > Vlad > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> > wrote: > >> That doc section is wrong. Vlad - can you fix that >> >> We do in fact support arrays of all types including embeddables and >> entities. However, we have always recommended to not use arrays for >> entities as arrays cannot be lazy loaded (not even using bytecode >> enhancement). >> >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 6:29 PM Gail Badner <gbad...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> > Documentation makes it sound like only arrays of basic types are >> supported. >> > [1] >> > >> > I see a test using an array of entities, but I don't see one for an >> array >> > of embeddables. [2] >> > >> > Regards, >> > Gail >> > >> > [1] >> > >> > http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.2/userguide/html_ >> single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#collections-array >> > [2] >> > >> > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/hiber >> nate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/annotations/ >> array/Contest.java#L40-L42 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > hibernate-dev mailing list >> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
