How do I properly annotate inheritance classes using ORMLite?

Question

I\'m trying to use inheritance with ORMLite and I can\'t work out if it is supported or not from looking at the documentation and googling.

What I want to do is have

Answer 1

The @DatabaseTable annotation is only necessary on the Student or Teacher tables and would not be used if it was on the Person base class.

What you need to have is a @DatabaseField annotation on the id and name fields in Person. For example:

public abstract class Person{
    @DatabaseField(generatedId = true)
    public int id;
    @DatabaseField
    public String name;
}

ORMLite should walk the class hierarchy and any fields from the base class should be included in the Student and Teacher tables. If you edit your question to show the @DatabaseField or other annotations, I can comment more.