Description Guy Pelletier 2010-11-26 14:15:58 EST

When an xml-mapping-metadata-complete flag is set, all entities across the persistence unit should be metadata-complete and any metadata-complete=false from an entity, embeddable or mapped superclass should be ignored.

This is written in the spec, section 11.1

"If xml-mapping-metadata-complete is specified and XML elements are omitted, the default values apply. These default values are the same as the corresponding defaults when annotations are used, except in the cases specified in Section 11.2 below. When the xml-mapping-metadata-complete element is specified, any metadata-complete attributes specified within the entity, mapped-superclass, and embeddable elements are ignored."

Example:

<persistence-unit-metadata>
  <xml-mapping-metadata-complete/>
</persistence-unit-metadata>

<entity class="Hammer" metadata-complete="false">
  <attributes>
    <id name="id">
      <column name="ID"/>
      <generated-value/>
    </id>
  </attributes>
</entity>

public class Hammer extends Tool {    
    public int id;
    
    // ===>> This column name should not get picked up and should default to color.
    @Column(name="IGNORED_COLOR")
    public String color;
    
    public Hammer() {}    
}