How do you use ORMLite with an abstract class?

Question

I have an base class Peripheral. Classes Sensor and Master are extensions of Peripheral. I need ORMlite to instantiate my

Answer 1

Gray is correct, and I forgot about that reflection rule when I asked the question the first time. I have worked around the limitations on both limits of reflection and ORMlite not currently distiguishing between super classes. This is my structure:

class Peripheral {
    @DatabaseField(generatedId)
    int _ID;
    @databaseField
    int serial;
    // ... Methods ommitted to be succint
}

class PeripheralWrapper extends Peripheral {
    final Peripheral mBase;
    PeripheralWrapper(Peripheral peripheral) {
        mBase = peripheral;
    }
    // ... Methods are overridden but call the base's methods instead
}

class Sensor extends PeripheralWrapper {
    Sensor(Peripheral peripheral) {
        super(peripheral);
    }
}

class Master extends PeripheralWrapper {
    Master(Peripheral peripheral) {
        super(peripheral);
    }
}

// This is the work around

@DatabaseTable(tableName="Peripheral")
class BasePeripheral extends Peripheral {
}

This work around is simple actually. Now I only inflate the basePeripheral and then pass those into the wrappers as needed. All inflation and delegation of wrapping is done in a PeripheralFactory.