I haven't had time to do any more work on this for a while, but I guess you
have to create a new Manager, PersonManager which extends UserManager to do
CRUD operations on the new Person class. Do you agree Matt?
sionsmith wrote:
>
> Firstly matt i'm using version 2 release M3! Yes i changed the mappings in
> the hibernate.cfg.xml but that is my point, the tableis not being created
> as there is no way of adding a dependency to my inukUser class. I'm going
> to try viggo's solution and i'll let you know how i get on. One thing that
> may be a problem as a result of your solution is the UserManager, will
> this work with the new extended user object??
>
>
>
> Cheers All Sion!
>
> Matt keep up the hard work!
>
>
> viggo wrote:
>>
>> I've also been thinking of extending the original User class by adding
>> more properties to it. The way I did it was to extract the core model
>> classes from appfuse, add @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED)
>> to the User.java, and then create a new class which extends User, and add
>> @Entity to it.
>> I'm not sure what kind of project you have, but I'm using a
>> modular-spring project. In order to use your own model classes you have
>> to exclude the core appfuse model classes by added this to the pom.xml of
>> the web module:
>>
>> <dependency>
>> <groupId>org.appfuse</groupId>
>> <artifactId>appfuse-${web.framework}</artifactId>
>> <version>${appfuse.version}</version>
>> <type>warpath</type>
>> <!-- Excluded the appfuse-data-common due to
>> personal changes in the
>> core model -->
>> <exclusions>
>> <exclusion>
>> <groupId>org.appfuse</groupId>
>>
>>
>> <artifactId>appfuse-data-common</artifactId>
>> </exclusion>
>> </exclusions>
>> </dependency>
>>
>> Anyone who disagree to this solution???
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan Noll wrote:
>>>
>>> I assume you're using 2.0 because of the annotations. Did you change
>>> the <class> mapping in the hibernate.cfg.xml file so it is looking for
>>> InukUser instead of org.appfuse.model.User?
>>>
>>> Matt Raible wrote:
>>>> Which version of AppFuse are you using?
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> On 2/21/07, sionsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been playing around with this for a few hours now and i cant
>>>>> seem to
>>>>> get it working, the users in my system have a number of added entities
>>>>> compared with that of the stand appfuse one. I thought i could just
>>>>> extend
>>>>> the class and place the new attributes in the new class.
>>>>>
>>>>> ================
>>>>> Example InukUser.java
>>>>> public class InukUser extends User {
>>>>> protected String region;
>>>>> protected boolean student;
>>>>> protected String nusNumber;
>>>>>
>>>>> @Column(name="region")
>>>>> public String getRegion() {
>>>>> return region;
>>>>> }
>>>>> ......
>>>>>
>>>>> ================
>>>>> When i used the userManager.getUserByUserName("tomcat"); i get a
>>>>> classCastException using my own InukUser - what i'm i doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have also tried to implement my own usermanager which returns a
>>>>> InukUser
>>>>> but this didnt seem the right way to do it.
>>>>>
>>>>> While creating my own implementation it occurred to me that i the
>>>>> database
>>>>> had the existing appfuse User structure, i changing the
>>>>> hibernate.cfg.xml so
>>>>> that my user was included in the mapping, but when i created the
>>>>> tables this
>>>>> table was not created. I placed the:
>>>>>
>>>>> @Entity
>>>>> @Table(name="inuk_user")
>>>>>
>>>>> at the top of the InukUser class but not sure how you map the
>>>>> "extends" in
>>>>> the new hibernate 3 annotations without adding a
>>>>> @Inheritance(strategy=JOINED) to the master class.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help with how to do this or how to map this out using the Appfuse
>>>>> framework would be very great and a great saving of my time :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Many Thanks - Keep up the hard work Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> Sion
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