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Bug 369940

Summary:	[EclipseLink] dynamic persistence validation for parent-class attribute
Product:	[WebTools] Dali JPA Tools	Reporter:	Karen Butzke <karenfbutzke>
Component:	JPA	Assignee:	Karen Butzke <karenfbutzke>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	neil.hauge
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.2 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	EclipseLink
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	309475

Description Karen Butzke

2012-01-27 10:20:42 EST

EclipseLink dynamic persistence uses the parent-class attribute on entity, mapped-superclass, and embeddable in the eclipselink-orm.xml, to define inheritance. We need to validate that there is a persistent type defined with that name if the parent-class is specified. We could also have xml code completion for this attribute. The package element is also used in conjunction with parent-class.

Can parent-class be set to a non-dynamic type? I'm not sure how fully EclipseLink supports this case.

Comment 1 Karen Butzke

2012-03-05 10:17:12 EST

Added validation to eclipselink ORM entity, embeddable, and mapped-superclass for parent-class: 
Parent class <class name> does not exist

Dali allows the parent-class to be dynamic or static.