Question

Is it possible to detect if a certain field of a given class has been mapped?

E.G.

I have the object;

MyObject {
   private MyOtherObject other
}

And in the mapping file;

<many-to-one name="other" class="com.mypackage.MyOtherObject" lazy="false" />

Now is it possible to detect in java, if other has been mapped? I know I can create a static class containing mapped fields etc. But I’d rather detect it on the fly. Is that possible?

Answer 1

If you just want to see if the MyOtherObject is mapped, you can try to get the ClassMetadata from the SessionFactory for that class. If it’s null, it’s not mapped:

s.getSessionFactory().getClassMetadata(Bar.class);