The only other thing I can think of is to use something like apache
commons-beanutils to convert the abator object to the main model by just
copying properties. That isn't particularly satisfying either.
Thanks again for the idea, I think i'll probably go with it.
Dave
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:36 -0500, Jeff Butler wrote:
> Yep - that's the idea. I agree about the "magic" - comment heavily.
>
> iBATIS is instantiating the new objects here, so you have to do it the
> iBATIS specific way.
>
> As for the general question, I can't think of a more general way to do
> this - but I am far from the final authority on Java practices. This
> is partly what the FactoryMethod pattern is all about - you just have
> to make sure that you are using factories when creating objects.
>
> Jeff Butler
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, David Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks for the tip. Is this the general idea?
>
> public Object createInstance(String stmtId, Class clazz) {
> String className = clazz.getName();
> if (className.startsWith("com.test.model.abator")) {
> className = className.replaceFirst("\.abator","");
> Object obj = Resources.instantiate(className);
> return obj;
> }
>
> return null;
>
> }
>
> So the sqlMap file would still say:
> resultMap class="com.test.model.abator.Account"
>
> but would actually return a com.test.model.Account object?
>
> This seems like a good solution, although the "magic" of that
> class
> conversion seems a little opaque if someone else had to
> maintain the
> code. I guess commenting heavily could help. Do you know of
> any
> non-ibatis specific way to create a subclass from an instance
> of a
> superclass?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:36 -0500, Jeff Butler wrote:
> > You could use iBATIS' ResultObjectFactory. When iBATIS asks
> for a new
> > com.test.model.abator.Thing, you could return
> com.test.model.Thing.
> >
> > Jeff Butler
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:16 PM, David Evans
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Apologies, This post is slightly off topic, as it
> has to do
> > with java
> > class hierarchy, but i'm hoping someone here will
> have solved
> > the same
> > problem.
> >
> > I have set up abator to create my sqlmaps, model and
> spring
> > dao classes.
> > I would like to use these generated model classes as
> base
> > classes for
> > more fully featured business objects. my situation
> looks like
> > this:
> >
> > com.test.model.abator.Thing (generated by abator)
> > com.test.model.Thing extends
> com.test.model.abator.Thing
> >
> > Now my Thing model never has to worry about the
> field getters
> > and
> > setters mirroring the database table.
> >
> > When using the dao classes, i have a problem. For
> updates and
> > inserts,
> > everything is fine, i can pass the
> com.test.model.Thing to the
> > dao and
> > it accepts it of course, because it extends
> > com.test.model.abator.Thing.
> > but on a select the dao returns me a
> > com.test.model.abator.Thing, which
> > I cannot cast to a com.test.model.Thing. I can't
> think of a
> > way to
> > create a new com.test.model.Thing from a
> > com.test.model.abator.Thing
> > without duplicating all of the fields. If i have to
> create a
> > constructor
> > which explicitly transfers all of the field values
> then i lose
> > the
> > entire point of my abator setup.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
>
>
