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HHH-6036: Some corrections to the "revision log" chapter of Envers docs

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adamw 2011-03-31 14:16:13 +02:00
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@ -263,22 +263,21 @@
</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<term>revision number</term> - An integral value (<literal>int/Integer</literal> or
<literal>long/Long</literal>). Essentially the primary key of the revision
</para>
<para>
<term>revision timestamp</term> - either a <literal>long/Long</literal> or
<classname>java.util.Date</classname> value representing the instant at which the revision was made.
When using a <classname>java.util.Date</classname>, instead of a <literal>long/Long</literal> for
the revision timestamp, take care not to store it to a column data type which will loose precision.
</para>
<firstterm>revision number</firstterm> - An integral value (<literal>int/Integer</literal> or
<literal>long/Long</literal>). Essentially the primary key of the revision
</listitem>
<listitem>
<firstterm>revision timestamp</firstterm> - either a <literal>long/Long</literal> or
<classname>java.util.Date</classname> value representing the instant at which the revision was made.
When using a <classname>java.util.Date</classname>, instead of a <literal>long/Long</literal> for
the revision timestamp, take care not to store it to a column data type which will loose precision.
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>
Envers handles this information as an entity. By default it uses its own internal class to act as the
entity. You can, however, supply your own approach to collecting this information which might be useful to
entity, mapped to the <literal>REVINFO</literal> table.
You can, however, supply your own approach to collecting this information which might be useful to
capture additional details such as who made a change or the ip address from which the request came. There
are 2 things you need to make this work.
</para>
@ -331,9 +330,9 @@ public class MyCustomRevisionListener implements RevisionListener {
is to instead call the <methodname>getCurrentRevision</methodname> method of the
<interfacename>org.hibernate.envers.AuditReader</interfacename> interface to obtain the current revision,
and fill it with desired information. The method accepts a <literal>persist</literal> parameter indicating
whether the revision entity should be persisted prior to returning from this method. <literal>true</literal>
which will ensure the returned entity has access to its identifier value (revision number), but the revision
entity will be persisted regardless of whether there are any audited entities changed. <literal>false</literal>
whether the revision entity should be persisted prior to returning from this method. <literal>true</literal>
ensures that the returned entity has access to its identifier value (revision number), but the revision
entity will be persisted regardless of whether there are any audited entities changed. <literal>false</literal>
means that the revision number will be <literal>null</literal>, but the revision entity will be persisted
only if some audited entities have changed.
</para>
@ -343,7 +342,9 @@ public class MyCustomRevisionListener implements RevisionListener {
<title>Example of storing username with revision</title>
<programlisting>
<filename>ExampleRevEntity.java</filename><![CDATA[package org.hibernate.envers.example;
<filename>ExampleRevEntity.java</filename><![CDATA[
package org.hibernate.envers.example;
import org.hibernate.envers.RevisionEntity;
import org.hibernate.envers.DefaultRevisionEntity;
@ -360,7 +361,9 @@ public class ExampleRevEntity extends DefaultRevisionEntity {
}]]></programlisting>
<programlisting>
<filename>ExampleListener.java</filename><![CDATA[package org.hibernate.envers.example;
<filename>ExampleListener.java</filename><![CDATA[
package org.hibernate.envers.example;
import org.hibernate.envers.RevisionListener;
import org.jboss.seam.security.Identity;
@ -369,7 +372,8 @@ import org.jboss.seam.Component;
public class ExampleListener implements RevisionListener {
public void newRevision(Object revisionEntity) {
ExampleRevEntity exampleRevEntity = (ExampleRevEntity) revisionEntity;
Identity identity = (Identity) Component.getInstance("org.jboss.seam.security.identity");
Identity identity =
(Identity) Component.getInstance("org.jboss.seam.security.identity");
exampleRevEntity.setUsername(identity.getUsername());
}