On 12/07/2011 10:29 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote: > One of the enhancements I want to get into 4.1 is HHH-2879 / HHH-2896 > regarding adding an actual API for entity loading by natural key.
Woot. > However, I think at the same time we should be more explicit and > consistent about what it means when we say that a mapped natural key is > mutable or immutable. Basically, is "immutable" a hint from the user > that the values cannot change (so that we can perform certain > optimizations)? Or is "immutable" a mandate that we have to verify the > natural key has not changed, either through Hibernate or "behind" us? > > Today we kind of have a blend of those two. > > Personally I think we should take it as a hint from the user that the > values will not change. WDYT? Would the hint mechanism involve any detection of changed values at all? What would the user see if a natural key were changed? -CB _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
