Package org.hibernate.annotations

Annotation Interface DiscriminatorOptions

@Target(TYPE)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface DiscriminatorOptions

Optional annotation used in conjunction with the JPA-defined DiscriminatorColumn annotation to express Hibernate-specific discriminator properties.

Author:

Hardy Ferentschik

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element	Description
boolean	force	If enabled, allowed discriminator values are always explicitly enumerated in select queries, even when retrieving all instances of a root entity and its subtypes.
boolean	insert	Should be false if a discriminator column is also part of a mapped composite identifier, and should not be duplicated in SQL INSERT statements.

Element Details

force

boolean force

If enabled, allowed discriminator values are always explicitly enumerated in select queries, even when retrieving all instances of a root entity and its subtypes. This is useful if there are discriminator column values which do not map to any subtype of the root entity type.

Returns:

true if allowed discriminator values must always be explicitly enumerated

Default:

false

insert

boolean insert

Should be false if a discriminator column is also part of a mapped composite identifier, and should not be duplicated in SQL INSERT statements.

Default:

true