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Pleasing the O/R Mapper – Default Constructor Hack - Roger Alsing
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Pleasing the O/R Mapper – Default Constructor Hack - Roger Alsing

Hack of the day:

Most O/R mapper frameworks require entities to implement a default constructor.

This is most often not a big deal, most entities would support a default constructor no matter if the mapper needed it or not.

However, if you intend to expose an entity that only support a copy constructor.

Let’s say for the sake of the argument that we have an immutable “Order” class, that can only be created by passing an “OrderRequest”:

public class Order {    public Order( OrderRequest request )   ...

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