Scan classpath for persistence annotations when creating session factory for hibernate [SPR-4738]

[spring-projects-issues]

Dave Syer opened SPR-4738 and commented

Scan classpath for persistence annotations when creating session factory for hibernate. The AnnotationSessionFactoryBean requires me to explictly enumerate all classes that are annotated, whereas I know Spring could discover that for me, e.g.:

<bean id="sessionFactory"
	class="org...AutoDiscoverAnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
	<property name="basePackage"
		value="com.springsource.consulting.integration" />
	<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
            ...
</bean>

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Affects: 2.5.3

Issue Links:

• Auto-pickup of entity beans [SPR-1338] #6038 Auto-pickup of entity beans ("duplicates")

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

I've added a "packagesToScan" property to Spring's AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, searching the specified packages for @Entity classes and automatically registering them. This is reusing the same core facility that Spring 2.5's component-scan feature uses.

Reopened and resolved #6038, which suggested more or less the same feature.

Juergen

[spring-projects-issues]

Paul Benedict commented

Would it be too much to also add a classesToExcludeFromScan property? It would accept a collection of FQN classes (<list>). Sometimes there are particular classes out of a large breath of packages I'd want to exclude temporarily.