The best way to map the @DiscriminatorColumn with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction As previously explained, the SINGLE_TABLE inheritance is the most efficient entity inheritance strategy. However, for JPQL query such as this one: Hibernate generates a SQL query which filters by the associated discriminator column (e.g. DTYPE by default): So, because we are filtering by the discriminator column, we might want to index it or include it to speed up queries. However, the default STRING DiscriminatorType expects a VARCHAR column that must hold the longest entity subclass name. For the Announcement class, we need at least 12 bytes to store the entity class… Read More
The best way to map the SINGLE_TABLE inheritance with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction Java, like any other object-oriented programming language, makes heavy use of inheritance and polymorphism. Inheritance allows defining class hierarchies that offer different implementations of a common interface. Conceptually, the Domain Model defines both data (e.g. persisted entities) and behavior (business logic). Nevertheless, inheritance is more useful for varying behavior rather than reusing data (composition is much more suitable for sharing structures). Even if the data (persisted entities) and the business logic (transactional services) are decoupled, inheritance can still help varying business logic (e.g. Visitor pattern). In this article, we are going… Read More
