[OPENJPA-2389] For entity fields missing @Transient annotations, let us know the classes they are in.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Assignee: Richard G. Curtis
• Reporter: Glen Mazza
• Created: 28/May/13 20:13
• Updated: 06/Jun/15 14:24
• Resolved: 18/Feb/14 23:26

Description

Hi, I'm on the Apache Roller team and we apparently have a dozen or so missing @Transient annotations somewhere within our many, many persistence classes but OpenJPA just tells us the element missing the annotation, not the entity class where that element is located[1].

For example, running mvn test from Roller's weblogger-business module:

575 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "categories" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.
575 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "entryAttributes" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.
575 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "tags" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.
740 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "inputStream" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.
740 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "directory" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.
740 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "tags" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.
781 RollerPU WARN [main] openjpa.Runtime - Fields "parent" are not a default persistent type, and do not have any annotations indicating their persistence strategy. They will be treated as non-persistent. If you intended for these fields to be persistent, be sure to annotate them appropriately. Otherwise annotate them with @Transient.

These fields are so generic they could be on any of a half-dozen entity classes. If you could alter the error message to include the entity class where the field missing @Transient is located, it would be much easier for code cleanup/debugging. Thanks!

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openjpa-commits/201201.mbox/[e-mail]%3E