| Re: [eclipselink-users] Using a ContainerMapping with a Collection class that does not have a no-arg constructor |
You could write your own ContainerPolicy for your list and set it on the mapping. Refer to the other container policies for an example, such as, SortedCollectionContainerPolicy. Mighty Mike wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I need to use a custom class that implements List as my collection for a > ContainerMapping. However, my custom List has a constructor with an > argument. Is there a way to tell EclipseLink to use a certain object as > the > argument to the constructor? I could not find any mention in the > documentation for ContainerMapping.useCollectionClass() that the > Collection's constructor needs to be no-arg but there doesn't seem to be > any > facility for passing it an argument. > > I could subclass my List and hardcode the argument but that is not > convenient since I have multiple mappings that use different arguments. > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Mike > > ----- http://wiki.eclipse.org/User:James.sutherland.oracle.com James Sutherland http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/ EclipseLink , http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/ TopLink Wiki: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink EclipseLink , http://wiki.oracle.com/page/TopLink TopLink Forums: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=48 TopLink , http://www.nabble.com/EclipseLink-f26430.html EclipseLink Book: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence Java Persistence -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Using-a-ContainerMapping-with-a-Collection-class-that-does-not-have-a-no-arg-constructor-tp29167061p29173426.html Sent from the EclipseLink - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.