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[jira] Commented: (OPENJPA-1541) Support Enum as Primary Key Type

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Marc Logemann commented on OPENJPA-1541:
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I just wanted to migrate to OpenJPA 2.0.1 but this missing feature hindered me. Did it really got lost?

> Support Enum as Primary Key Type
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OPENJPA-1541
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1541
>             Project: OpenJPA
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: jpa
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0-beta
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: bernard
>            Priority: Critical
>
> Enums work as primary keys in TopLink and EclipseLink. DataNucleus supports them, too:
> http://www.datanucleus.org/products/accessplatform/jpa/primary_key.html
> It would be good to also include this in the specification because, not to support type safety in primary keys is fairly sad.
> Enum is a basic language feature, and most applications would enjoy significant benefits by mapping the keys of those little system behavior controlling lookup tables to enums.
> Consider a payment_type table. One can only generate the IDs of the table and use them for switching safely when the ids are mapped to enums. Any such application would typically have a PaymentType enum anyway.

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