Yes, this is something we should support. I have added a request in jira:
http://www.fornax-platform.org/tracker/browse/CSC-250
Ryan Gardner wrote:
>
> I see in the Library example that a Map is used as the return type in
> a repository method, but does fornax support storing a map as part of
> a collection?
>
> i.e. something like this:
>
> Entity foo {
> Map<String, String> properties;
> }
>
> I understand that something like this this:
> Map<String, Object> properties
> might not be possible since Object might not be serializable / might
> not be mapped.. etc. - but
>
> Something like this:
>
> Map<@Item, @User> itemsAndUsers
>
> should be mappable as a ternary association with a join table like this:
>
> <map name="itemsAndUser" table="CATEGORY_ITEM">
> <key column="CATEGORY_ID"/>
> <map-key-many-to-many column="ITEM_ID" class="Item"/>
> <many-to-many column="ADDED_BY_USER_ID" class="User"/>
> </map>
>
> ... now - I just copied that itemsAndUsers example from the Java
> Persistence With Hibernate book ( page 347 of the pdf copy of it I
> have ) - but you get the idea.
>
> In any case - I'm most interested in just a basic mapping for now -
> because I've got a use case where I need to capture and persist a map
> of properties...
>
> Ryan
>
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