Bug 321256

Description David McCann 2010-07-29 13:53:08 EDT

We currently have XML metadata support (and will have annotation support) for ClassExtractor, but not ClassExtractionMethod.  

A class extraction method can be set on the InheritancePolicy via this method:

    public void setClassExtractionMethodName(String)

The XML metadata could look something like this:

    <java-type name="org.example.Person">
        <xml-class-extraction-method name="getClassForRow" />
    </java-type>

And the annotation could look something like the following:

    @Target({TYPE})
    @Retention(RUNTIME)
    public @interface ClassExtractionMethod {
        /**
         * (Required) Defines the name of the class extraction method
         * that should be applied to this entity's descriptor.
         */
        String value(); 
    }