Unfortunately, Rick is correct. These added methods are not documented currently. But, it would be a great exercise for any aspiring committer... :-) The other thing to keep in mind is that the Entity classes are enhanced "inline" as well. That is, some of the existing methods have byte codes weaved into existing method blocks as an aid to detect persistence activities (updating attributes, etc).
Kevin On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Rick Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: > David- > If I remember correctly, there is little to no documentation about the > methods that are added by the enhancement processing(someone please correct > me if I've missed something). Previously as an academic exercise I > decompiled an enhanced class to see what was added... that may be your best > place to start. Good luck. > > -Rick > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:56 AM, David Goodenough < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I realise that these methods are not part of JPA, and are not safe for > > users > > to call, but other than the source code that adds them, is there any > > documentation for these methods, saying what they are, what they do and > > what assumptions they make? > > > > David > > >
