Java – how to persist entities from non entity subclasses in Hibernate

I'm trying to extend an entity to a non entity to fill in the fields of the superclass The problem is that hibernate throws a mappingexception when I try to save it This is because even if I cast reportparser into report, the runtime instance is still reportparser, so hibernate complains that it is an unknown entity

@Entity
@Table(name = "TB_Reports")
public class Report
{
   Long id;
   String name;
   String value;

   @Id
   @GeneratedValue
   @Column(name = "cReportID")
   public Long getId()
   {
      return this.id;
   }

   public void setId(Long id)
   {
      this.id = id;
   }

   @Column(name = "cCompanyName")
   public String getname()
   {
      return this.name;
   }

   public void setName(String name)
   {
      this.name = name;
   }

   @Column(name = "cCompanyValue")
   public String getValue()
   {
      return this.name;
   }

   public void setValue(String value)
   {
      this.value = value;
   }
}

Reportparser is only used to fill in fields

public class ReportParser extends report
{
   public void setName(String htmlstring)
   {
      ...
   }

   public void setValue(String htmlstring)
   {
      ...
   }
}

Try to convert it to a report and save it

...
ReportParser rp = new ReportParser();
rp.setName(unparsed_string);
rp.setValue(unparsed_string);
Report r = (Report)rp;
this.dao.saveReport(r);

I used this pattern before moving to ORM, but I can't figure out how to use hibernate Is it possible?

Solution

Is it absolutely necessary to subclass entities? You can use the builder pattern:

public class ReportBuilder {
    private Report report;
    public ReportBuilder() {
        this.report = new Report();
    }
    public ReportBuilder setName(String unparsedString) {
        // do the parsing
        report.setName(parsedString);
        return this;
    }
    public ReportBuilder setValue(String unparsedString) {
        // do the parsing
        report.setValue(parsedString);
        return this;
    }
    public Report build() {
        return report;
    }
}

Report report = new ReportBuilder()
                   .setName(unparsedString)
                   .setValue(unparsedString)
                   .build();
dao.saveReport(report);