Making stuff like this optional in 4.x is difficult though because it needs to tie into the metamodel resolution. Today that process is very closed-off and static.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: > 2014-07-28 11:48 GMT+02:00 Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org>: > > > We'd also love to support some features (especially the new user types > > such as Date/Time) in Hibernate Search. > > > > Ah, right. I've heard requests about the 310 date/time types as well. > > > > > I don't think we should require Java8 for all users though, so I'd > > like this to be an independent module.. troublesome with Maven though, > > so this wasn't done yet. > > > > Yes, it should definitely be optional. > > I think it depends on the specific case how easy or hard this will be to > achieve. If it's something rather isolated such as a specific user type > it's easy, but in other cases it's more painful (e.g. marking annotation > types as repeatable cannot really be done in a backwards-compatible manner, > so it needs effectively two variants of such an annotation). > > --Sanne > > > > On 28 July 2014 07:36, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Java 8 introduced a new type Optional which may be used to represent > > > objects which may be set or not set: > > > > > > private Optional<String> name; > > > > > > Hibernate Validator will allow to validate properties of this type in > the > > > next release. Now someone brought up the question whether the same is > > > planned for ORM, so one can use Optional in entity properties. > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > --Gunnar > > > _______________________________________________ > > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
