>> the insert will also insert newspaper related
>> attribute to the appropriate column name
What do you mean by that? It's not going to generate any magical SQL to insert additional properties of subclasses.
If you tell it to insert the property into the column, it will.
Cheers,
Clinton
On 7/29/06, Bing Lu <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
so let's say I want insert a Newspaper, I just call
insertDocument with Newspaper as parameter object? and
the insert will also insert newspaper related
attribute to the appropriate column name?
thanks a lot
--- Clinton Begin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it can be abstract. But obviously you must
> ensure the query results
> never drop the map back to the base class (i.e with
> an unknown
> discriminator) otherwise you'll get an instantiation
> exception.
>
> As for updates, if they're in the same table, then
> you can use the usual "if
> property exists" type dynamic conditionals. If
> you're dealing with multiple
> tables, you'll have to write separate statements and
> call the appropriate
> ones -- it is just SQL at that point. iBATIS
> doesn't do anything magical.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Clinton
>
> On 7/29/06, Bing Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > so in the example testDomain.Document can be an
> > abstract class? And also if I want to
> insert/update a
> > book or newspaper what query do I call? I see
> > update/insertDocument but no update/insert
> operations
> > for books and Newspaper thanks
> >
> > <resultMap id="document"
> class="testdomain.Document">
> > <result property="id" column="DOCUMENT_ID"/>
> > <result property="title"
> column="DOCUMENT_TITLE"/>
> > <result property="type"
> column="DOCUMENT_TYPE"/>
> > <discriminator column="DOCUMENT_TYPE"
> > javaType="string" >
> > <subMap value="Book" resultMap="book"/>
> > <subMap value="Newspaper" resultMap="news"/>
> > </discriminator>
> > </resultMap>
> >
> > --- Clinton Begin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, you can.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/29/06, Bing Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > so what if I have two classes that extends an
> > > abstract
> > > > class? that means I can't have a resultmap of
> the
> > > > abstract class with submaps of children still
> > > right?
> > > >
> > > > --- Clinton Begin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Well...what would it mean to support
> abstract
> > > type?
> > > > > That would be rather
> > > > > useless. :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > I think what you're asking is to we support
> > > > > polymorphic queries, and the
> > > > > answer is YES.
> > > > >
> > > > > The wiki notes this as an undocumented
> feature:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/IBATIS/Not+Yet+Documented
> > > > >
> > > > > You may find the unit tests helpful though,
> it's
> > > a
> > > > > pretty simple feature to
> > > > > use.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ibatis/trunk/java/mapper/mapper2/test/com/ibatis/sqlmap/maps/Documents.xml
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ibatis/trunk/java/mapper/mapper2/test/com/ibatis/sqlmap/DiscriminatorTest.java
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Clinton
> > > > >
> > > > > On 7/29/06, Bing Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > hi, does the mapper support abstract
> > > resultmaps?
> > > > > or
> > > > > > the class mapped must be instantiable
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > >
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