It may be the issue for specific use-case only, can you provide sample code?

just tried latest, create entities A and B and add line 'private A some;' to B. have all mentioned hints (create uni/bi onetoone/many)

That's weird, I can't reproduce it. It's working indeed.

Anyway, I don't think it's useful to waste any time on this.

My sincere apologies for the inconvenience...

OK - could reproduce. The hint is missing when the generic type is an interface (and probably also an abstract class). Although this is not common practice, it is allowed if the "targetentity" attribute is specified.


An interface :

interface Bar {
}


Implemented by a default class :

class BarImpl implements Bar {
}


Using it for an association :

@Entity
class Test {

  private Bar bar; <== No hints. But there's a warning though.

}


However, this is JPA-compliant :

@Entity
class Test {
   
  @OneToOne(targetEntity=BarImpl.class)
  private Bar bar;

}

ok, need to investigate, but it may be not a regression and isn't p2 as some corner case and just isn't "yet supported" case.

No problem :-) Just signalling it.

thanks, for the report, will try in 7.1

BarImpl isn't entity in sample provided. But it it's meant to be an entity it's not usual hint as for other cases with relationship, it's some indirect hint with additional analysis for possible target classes implemented by provided interface, instead of direct hint which say "hey, it's entity and it should be some kind of relationship instead of plain member". Such analysis is clear enhancement request for me, it can last forever, some hint may be provided even if Bar will not be implemented by any entity but there may be a hint to create such entity and so on.

This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss