It took me a while to figure it out also! Create your SqlSessionFactory as normal, then add the interfaces manually:
sqlSessionFactory.getConfiguration().addMapper(SomeMapperInterface.class); Jeff Butler On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Rick R <ric...@gmail.com> wrote: > Larry showed me his cool no xml config setup which I'd love to implement at > some point. > > For this current project using ibatis3 it's too late to refactor a real lot > at this stage and we're using your typical sqlMapConfig file. Overall we > still prefer to code all of our sql in xml files, but I just recently > decided to create some sql using the annotation-based approach in an > interface mapper file. > > The problem (?) is that even though all the sql is in this mapper interface, > I seem to still have to declare a dummy corresponding mapping xml file just > to declare the interface namespace (otherwise ibatis at runtime bitches > about not being able to find the mapping.) I looked over the ibatis3 pdf > and under the annotation approach section for using Mappers it doesn't > really mention that you need the corresponding mapping.xml file, so I'm > probably just missing something stupid? > > Shouldn't there be a way in the SqlMapConfig to declare "Use this interface > mapper" ? Basically I was thinking in the mapper section of the config > instead of having to use: > > <mappers> > <mapper resource="mapper-files/metadb/DataReleaseMapper.xml"/> > > You could also include: > > <mappers> > <mapper class="com.foobar.mapper.DataReleaseMapper"/> > > As it is now, I'm having to declare that silly DataReleaseMapper.xml which > only ends up wrapping my interface Mapper. > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE mapper > PUBLIC "-//ibatis.apache.org//DTD Mapper 3.0//EN" > "http://ibatis.apache.org/dtd/ibatis-3-mapper.dtd"> > > <mapper > namespace="com.foo.dataselector.media.service.mapper.DataReleaseMapper"> > > </mapper> > > My assumption is that I'm missing something obvious:) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-java-unsubscr...@ibatis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-java-h...@ibatis.apache.org