Hi, I have a problem which may be a bug in the OJB xdoclet plugin and/or
in OJB itself. Or I'm doing something wrong, of course ;-) Can anyone
shed any light?
I have a persistent class with a static inner class which is also
persistent. The outer class holds a collection of instances of the inner
class. Both are marked up with xdoclet tags, so I have something like this:
/**
* @ojb.class
*/
public class History {
/**
* @ojb.class
*/
public static class Change {
// change log info...
}
/**
* @ojb.collection foreignkey="..."
* element-class-ref="...History$Change"
*/
private List changes;
}
The first problem is that xdoclet chokes on the '$' in the
element-class-ref, givig the error "Collection changes in class
...History references an unknown class ...History$Change." That's legal
syntax for an inner class, so I'd call that a bug... Would I be wrong?
Secondly, if I change the '$' to '.', the repository is generated OK but
OJB chokes on startup, throwing a ClassNotFoundException for
...History.Change. I thought both '.' and '$' were legal ways to
reference an inner class; is OJB at fault here, or is the '.' syntax
really not allowed?
If I manually edit the generated repository_user.xml and change the
references to Change to use '$', it works, so I know my mappings are
otherwise correct.
So:
- is xdoclet (or the OJB plugin) at fault for not accepting the '$' form?
- is OJB at fault for not accepting the '.' form?
- Am *I* at fault for doing something wrong?
