> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Sutter [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What happens with invalid query hints? > [deleted] > > Otherwise, if you pass in a hint that OpenJPA knows nothing about > (let's > just say openjpa.hint.FailFast), then you would receive an > ArgumentException. The curious thing here is that this seems to > contradict > the hint processing as defined by JPA 2.0. I believe invalid hints are > supposed to be ignored to allow for programming model compatibilities > between JPA providers. So, maybe there's some clean up necessary in > our > documentation. > > Does this help? We should probably open a JIRA to address this > documentation hiccup. If you don't have access to open a JIRA, then > let me > know and I can open one.
I may or may not have an account as of yet, but as I'm going to be spending a lot of time with this in the next few months (at least), I think it's worthwhile for me to create it. I'll have it reference your statements here. > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I'm just reading through the docs (1.2.1) right now, and I noticed > the > > following statement in section 10.1.7, "Query Hints": > > > > "Invalid hints or hints which can not be processed by a particular > > database are ignored. Otherwise, invalid hints will result in an > > ArgumentException being thrown." > > > > I'm a little confused by this. Under what circumstances will a hint > be > > ignored, and when will it get an ArgumentException? > >
